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Luss Description of stone
Event ID 1084417
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084417
Luss 2 (St Kessog), Dunbartonshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.63m, W 0.36m, D 0.18m
Stone type: slate
Place of discovery: NS 3610 9286
Present location: in Luss churchyard.
Evidence for discovery: recorded in the early 1920s by Lacaille. This ancient church-site lies close to the point at which the Luss Water flows into Loch Lomond.
Present condition: the top right corner is damaged but the carving is good.
Description
Spanning the width of one broad face of this rectangular slab is an incised equal-armed cross.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Lacaille 1925, 144; Fisher 2001, 84-5, no 14 (1).
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
