Glenluce Description of stone

Event ID 1084096

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084096

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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