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High Auchenlarie Description of stone
Event ID 1084064
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084064
High Auchenlarie 2, Kirkcudbrightshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.57m above ground, W0.32m, D 0.40m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX 5365 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 1. Around 1854 both were taken to stand in the garden at Cardoness House, until about 1970 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 damaged.
Description:
One face of this pillar bears an outline cross with square terminals to the arms, set on a broad shaft that echoes the span of the side-arms. The centre of the cross-head is marked by a small hollow.
Date: early medieval.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 480; Craig 1992, vol 2, 317-17.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
