Hoddom Description of stone
Event ID 1083877
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1083877
Hoddom 67, Dumfriesshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.55m +, W 0.45 > 0.39m, D 0.06m
Stone type: pinkish-beige sandstone
Place of discovery: NY 1680 7289
Present location: Dumfries Museum.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1991 to the east of Hoddom graveyard.
Present condition: broken into four pieces and incomplete.
Description
Carved in relief on one broad face only, this slab displays a white cross against a red background, utilising the natural colour banding in the stone. The top corners of the slab are rounded, and the upper cross-arm extends to the upper edge of the stone. The side and upper arms of the cross have double-curved cusped terminals with widely curving armpits, while the lower, slightly shorter, arm is wedge-shaped. A short shaft links the cross-head to a square two-stepped base.
Date: mid ninth century.
References: Craig 2006, 124-6 (SF50/1353).
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
