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Cambusdoon Description of stone
Event ID 1084069
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084069
Cambusdoon, Ayeshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.93m, W 0.44m tapering downwards to 0.33m, D 0.11m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS 3317 1806
Evidence for discovery: found sometime prior to 1929 outside the graveyard wall west of the ruined Alloway Kirk in an area where dug graves were excavated in 2001. It was found resting on its original base but fractured, and the latter was left in the ground when the upper part was taken to the grounds of Cambusdoon School again prior to 1929. In 1978 it was taken into store at the Maclauren Art Gallery in Rozelle House before being transferred to Loudon House sometime before 1985.
Present location: Loudon House, Alloway.
Present condition: the top right corner of face A is missing and the base is broken. Face C appears to have been trimmed.
Description:
This wedge-shaped cross-slab is carved in low relief with a Maltese cross (type 8E) within an incised circle.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Lacaille 1929, 348-50.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
