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Mossknowe Description of stone
Event ID 1084197
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084197
Mossknowe, Dumfriesshire: hogback grave-cover
Measurements: L 0.61m, W 0.27m-0.33m, H 0.19-0.24m
Stone type: pink sandstone
Place of discovery: NY c 281697
Present location: Dumfries Burgh Museum.
Evidence for discovery: found between 1900 and 1910 in the garden at Mossknowe during drain digging. It was used as a step until it was taken to Dumfries Museum.
Present condition: truncated at both ends and worn.
Description
The stone tapers towards each end, and a wide band of interlace has been carved along the crest. Side A has been carved with four plain clinker bands and side B with a medallion scroll with pointed leaves and single large berries.
Date: tenth century.
References: RCAHMS 1920, no 377; Lang 1974, 219, 229-30; RCAHMS 1997, no 1776, 255.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
