Milton of Crathes Description of stone

Event ID 1084025

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Milton of Crathes 2, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.42m, W 0.33

Stone type:

Place of discovery: NO 7415 9617

Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1913.

Present location: reused as a building stone in the external face of the farmhouse east wall.

Present condition: trimmed and weathered.

Description:

This fragment represents the central portion of a stone bearing an incised outline cross.

Date range: early medieval.

Primary reference: Ritchie 1915a, 44-5.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019