Boddin 1 Description of stone
Event ID 1031049
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031049
Boddin 1, Chapel of St Skea (St Skeoch), Angus, cross-incised stone
Measurements: H 0.30m, W 0.60m
Stone type: Old Red Sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 7151 5395
Present location: in situ in the wall of the burial vault at Boddin.
Evidence for discovery: recorded in 1983, re-used as a building stone in the exterior south wall of the burial aisle. There was a 12th-century chapel on the site.
Present condition: good.
Description
An equal-armed cross is firmly incised on this block of stone. It may be a consecration cross for the twelfth-century chapel.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: DES 1995, 93.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
