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Culross 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1029797
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1029797
Culross 2 (St Serf), Fife, cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H 0.72m, W 0.44m, D 0.19m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS c 988 862
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1926 ‘resting against the wall of the church near the entrance door’. It was soon afterwards cemented into the socket of Culross 1 cross-base, despite it being far too small for the socket. Both were later taken into the church, and now stand set into a large wooden log.
Present condition: very worn, broken top and bottom.
Description
This fragment is part of a slender cross-shaft. Both broad faces are now devoid of ornament but are likely once to have been carved. Face B bears parts of two panels of ornament carved in relief and bordered by plain flat-band mouldings: the upper panel contains interlace within a narrow roll moulding, while the lower panel contains an angular scroll with diagonal strands and single berries, again bordered by narrow roll moulding. Face D is carved with a panel of diagonal key pattern bordered by a narrow roll moulding.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: Douglas 1926, 67-8.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017