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Glenluce Description of stone
Event ID 1084096
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084096
Glenluce Abbey, Wigtownshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.48m, W 0.45m, D 0.19 tapering to 0.11m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NX 1850 5866.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1884 in the ruins of the chapterhouse of Glenluce Abbey.
Present location: in the site museum at Glenluce Abbey (HES).
Present condition: broken edges and worn.
Description:
Trimmed for re-use as a building stone, this rectangular fragment is incised with the outline of a plain hammer-headed cross with circular armpits.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Craig 1992, vol 3, 83-6, vol 4, pl 121.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
