Milton of Crathes Description of stone

Event ID 1084024

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Milton of Crathes 1, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.66m, W 0.17m, D 0.07m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: NO 7415 9617

Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1913.

Present location: reused in a garden rockery at Milton of Crathes farmhouse.

Present condition: worn, and part of the right-hand side is missing.

Description:

Towards one end of this slab there is heavily incised an encircled equal-armed cross with hollows in the angles between the arms.

Date range: early medieval.

Primary reference: Ritchie 1915a, 44-5.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019