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.