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Roxburgh Description of stone
Event ID 1083830
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1083830
Roxburgh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.74m, W 0.35m, D 0.15m
Stone type: sandstone.
Place of discovery: NT 70010 30683
Evidence for discovery: recorded in 1944 as ‘recently discovered’ (RCHMS 1956, no 904) in the graveyard of Roxburgh Parish Church, an eighteenth-century church beneath which are earlier foundations.
Present location: leaning against the wall of the church, to the left of the north doorway.
Present condition: worn, and one of the top corners is missing.
Description:
This is a small rectangular cross-slab with a tapering base. There is a cross carved in low relief on both broad faces. On face A within a plain flat-band border is a cross with three upper wedge-shaped arms and two lower bars radiating out to the lower corners of the panel. In the centre of the cross is a sunken roundel. Face C bears a cross with a wedge-shaped upper arm, two bars forming the side-arms and three bars forming the lower arm. In the centre of the cross is a deeply incised circle. All the arms and bars on both faces touch the outer border. Narrow faces B and D bear three parallel vertical linear grooves.
Date: tenth or eleventh century.
Primary references: RCAHMS 1956, no 904; Martin & Oram 2007, 395, illus 27.
Site visit and compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
