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Wauchope Description of stone
Event ID 1084421
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084421
Wauchope, Dumfriesshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.58m, W 0.43m, D 0.57m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NY 3552 8408
Present location: within a railed enclosure at Wauchope.
Evidence for discovery: known since the late 19th century, the stone was placed on top of the grass-grown remains of the church within a railed enclosure in 1913.
Present condition: good.
Description
A block-like slab bearing an outline cross in false relief, with slightly wedge-shaped arms, traces of a central boss and a short tang at the base of the shaft.
Date: early medieval or later.
References: RCAHMS 1997, no 1799, 256.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
