Hoddom Description of stone

Event ID 1083884

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Hoddom 75, Dumfriesshire, cross-slab

Measurements: H 0.21m, W 0.19m, D 0.04m

Stone type: red sandstone

Place of discovery: NY 1680 7289

Present location: Dumfries Museum.

Evidence for discovery: found in 1991 amongst the collapsed NE corner of the wall of Hoddom graveyard.

Present condition: broken and very damaged.

Description

Only one face of this fragment is intact and bears parts of two wedge-shaped cross-arms carved in relief.

Date: uncertain.

References: Craig 2006, 131 (SF33).

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.