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Kirkmaiden Description of stone
Event ID 1084191
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084191
Kirkmaiden 1, Wigtownshire, cross-slab fragments
Measurements: H 0.68m, W 0.42m tapering to 0.30m, D 0.09m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX 3655 3997
Evidence for discovery: recorded at Kirkmaiden in 1864 by Muir, and taken to Whithorn sometime after 1985.
Present location: in Whithorn Museum.
Present condition: in three conjoining fragments.
Description:
This is the lower part of a cross-slab bearing a panel of simple interlace on face A, using median-incised cords and carved in low relief. The plain face C bears the relatively modern letters AMC, indicating re-use as a gravestone.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Muir 1864, 32-3; Craig 1992, vol 3, 148-50, vol 4, pl128.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
