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Hoddom Description of stone

Event ID 1083879

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1083879

Hoddom 69, Dumfriesshire, cross-slab

Measurements: H 0.62m, W 0.66m, D 0.06m

Stone type: reddish sandstone

Place of discovery: NY 1680 7289

Present location: Dumfries Museum.

Evidence for discovery: found after ploughing in 1991 to the east of Hoddom graveyard.

Present condition: broken into one large and several small fragments, incomplete and damaged.

Description

Carved on one broad face only, this slab bears an incised cross filling an incised panel. The three intact upper arms are equal in length and cusped, with wide curved armpits, and there is a small drilled laying-out hole at the centre of the cross-head.

Date: ninth century.

References: Craig 2006, 126-7 (SF26).

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.

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