Hoddom Description of stone
Event ID 1083878
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1083878
Hoddom 68, Dumfriesshire, cross-shaft
Measurements: H 0.29m, W 0.17m, D 0.13m
Stone type: reddish sandstone
Place of discovery: NY 1680 7289
Present location: Dumfries Museum.
Evidence for discovery: surface find in 1991 to the north-east of Hoddom graveyard.
Present condition: broken and very damaged.
Description
This fragment belongs to a plain cross-shaft (though one broad face is missing). It has two incised lines along the vertical edges, one deeper than the other.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Craig 2006, 126 (SF1350).
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
