Hoddom Description of stone
Event ID 1083908
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1083908
Hoddom 77, Dumfriesshire, cross-head
Measurements: H 0.19m, W 0.17m, D 0.15m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NY 1680 7289
Present location: Dumfries Museum.
Evidence for discovery: found by W F Cormack after ploughing in 1992 to the east of Hoddom graveyard.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This fragment is part of the terminal of an arm of a cross-head, carved in relief with a roll moulding. On face A a trilobed berry bunch is tucked into the corner, with a pointed leaf below, but face B appears to have been plain apart from an inner roll moulding.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Lowe 2006, 23-4, fig 3.6.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
