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Culross 3 Description of stone
Event ID 1029799
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1029799
Culross 3 (St Serf), Fife, cross-shaft fragments
Measurements: H 1.30m, W 0.35m at the base, 0.33 at the top, D 0.17m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS c 9890 8629
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1926 ‘serving the purpose of a border to a flight of steps near the north-east corner of the churchyard’. Sometime later it was taken into the church, and set leaning against the broad face of the cross-base, Culross 1.
Present condition: extremely weathered and broken into three fragments, now cemented together.
Description
These fragments come from a very slender cross-shaft, carved in relief but so worn that the ornament is hard to follow. Face A is bordered by a plain flat-band moulding, within which there appears to be a central panel of dense diagonal key pattern, with a narrow panel of ornament, possibly interlace, on either side. There are barely discernable traces of carving on faces B and D, and face C has been thoroughly defaced.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: Douglas 1926, 68.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
