Hoddom Description of stone

Event ID 1083887

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Hoddom 72, Dumfriesshire, cross-slab

Measurements: H 0.38m, W 0.25m, D 0.07m

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 trimmed for re-use.

Description

This fragment is part of the central portion of a cross-slab and is incised by four lines forming a tapering shaft.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Craig 2006, 128-9 (SF34).

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.