The Hirsel Description of stone

Event ID 1037092

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

The Hirsel 2, Berwickshire, grave-marker

Measurements: H 0.79m, W 0.38m > 0.33m, D 0.10m

Stone type: fine grained grey sandstone.

Place of discovery: NT 830 406

Present location: The Hirsel Information Centre.

Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1977 on the site of a chapel and graveyard.

Present condition: damaged.

Description

Roughly dressed, this slab bears on face A an incised linear cross with deeply punched dot terminals to the three upper arms.

Date: seventh to ninth century.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017