Kirkmadrine Description of stone
Event ID 1084110
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084110
Kirkmadrine 6, Wigtownshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.86m, W 0.16m, D 0.07m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX 08014 48389
Evidence for discovery: first recorded by RCAHMS around 1911.
Present location: at Kirkmadrine church.
Present condition: worn and trimmed on all four sides.
Description:
This tapering fragment is carved on one broad face with parts of three crosses, one above the other. They are carved in low relief by pecking the background and outlining with inner grooves. At the top is a large rectangular upper arm filled with angular interlace, above a central roundel and circular armpits. Very close below is another cross with widely expanded arms, itself almost touching another such cross below.
Date: early medieval.
References: Craig 1992, vol 3, 139-40, vol 4, pl 136C.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
