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Hoddom Description of stone
Event ID 1083859
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1083859
Hoddom 23, Dumfriesshire, cross-arm fragment
Measurements: H 0.22m, W 0.16m, D 0.12m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NY 1783 7352
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB.51)
Evidence for discovery: found in the ruins of the Hoddomcross old parish church before or during its demolition in 1817. In a private collection until it was presented to NMAS in 1851.
Present condition: very worn and lacking one outer corner.
Description:
This is the outer part of a slightly wedge-shaped cross-arm, carved in relief within flat-band borders. Face A contains a panel of interlace, face B a knot and a spiral, face C some sort of figural motif and the other faces are very worn.
Date: early medieval.
References: ECMS pt 3, 440; Craig 1992, vol 2, 243-5, vol 4, pl 59; RCAHMS 1997, 254-5.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
