Kirkmadrine Description of stone
Event ID 1084100
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084100
Kirkmadrine 5, Wigtownshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.47m, W 0.36m, D 0.12m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX 08014 48389
Evidence for discovery: found in the graveyard and built into the graveyard wall sometime before the 1880s.
Present location: at Kirkmadrine church.
Present condition: very weathered and the lower part of the slab is missing.
Description:
This is the upper part of a round-headed cross-slab, carved in low relief and incision on both broad faces. On one face there is an equal-armed cross with wedge-shaped arms and long bars in the armpits, and a central roundel within a diamond. Below are two smaller crosses with widely expanded arms, and all three crosses have an inner groove outlining their shape. On the other broad face there is a damaged hammer-headed cross, plain apart from an inner groove and a central roundel. There are circular roundels in the armpits.
Date: early medieval.
References: Craig 1992, vol 3, 137-8, vol 4, pl 136A & B.
Desk-based in formation compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
