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Ardwall Description of stone
Event ID 1084074
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084074
Ardwall Island 1, Ardwall House, Kirkcudbrightshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.86m, W 0.25m, D 0.08m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX 57315 49575
Evidence for discovery: recorded in 1925 covering a long cist within the burial ground on Ardwall Island and taken to Ardwall House on the mainland.
Present location: in the grounds of Ardwall House (NX 5819 5460).
Present condition: good.
Description:
One broad face of this thin slab is incised with an outline cross with slightly expanded terminals and rounded armpits. The base of the shaft is now open but may originally have had a squared terminal.
Date: eleventh century.
Primary references: Thomas 1967, 150-1.
Thomas, C 1967 ‘An early Christian cemetery and chapel on Ardwall Isle, Kirkcudbright’, Medieval Archaeology 11, 127-88.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
