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Kirkmadrine Description of stone
Event ID 1084108
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084108
Kirkmadrine 3, Wigtownshire, inscribed cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.99m+, W 0.26m, D 0.23m
Stone type: schist
Place of discovery: NX 08014 48389
Evidence for discovery: first recorded around 1810 in the old churchyard at Kirkmadrine, and taken to Stoneykirk Free Church Manse in the mid nineteenth century, where it was re-used as part of a gatepost. It was retrieved in 1916 and taken back to Kirkmadrine to be displayed in the porch outside the west end of the church at Kirkmadrine. The porch was refurbished and the stone collection redisplayed in 2013-15.
Present location: at Kirkmadrine church.
Present condition: much damage had been inflicted on the stone when the gatepost at Stoneykirk was demolished, but the fragments were restored.
Description:
One broad face of this pillar-slab bears an incised encircled chi-rho cross and a Latin inscription. The cross has very slender arms which terminate in wide dished expansions. The inscription reads ‘the beginning and the end’.
Date: sixth century.
References: Mitchell 1872; ECMS pt 3, 494-5; Craig 1992, vol 3, 130-4, vol 4, pl 132.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
