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High Auchenlarie Description of stone
Event ID 1084063
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084063
High Auchenlarie 1, Kirkcudbrightshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.70m above ground, W 0.39m, D 0.30m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX 5364 5340
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1849 by the OS standing upright in a field on the farm of High Auchenlarie, along with High Auchenlarie 2. Around 1854 both were taken to stand in the garden at Cardoness House, until 1972 when they were moved to Kirkdale House.
Present location: in an open wooden shed at Kirkdale House (NX 515 553).
Present condition: the top is very weathered.
Description:
This irregularly shaped pillar bears a cross carved in low relief and deeply pecked incision. Within two grooves outlining face A is a hammer-headed cross set on a broad shaft, with four small hollows in the upper arm and one in the centre of the cross-head.
Date: early medieval.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 480; Craig 1992, vol 2, 312-15.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
