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Barhobble Description of stone
Event ID 1084536
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084536
Barhobble 1, Airylick, Wigtownshire, carved stone
Measurements: L 0.25m, W 0.15m, D 0.08m
Stone type: Silurian stone
Place of discovery: NX 3104 4941
Evidence for discovery: found during excavations of the site of an early medieval chapel and burial ground in the 1980s and 1990s.
Present location: Stranraer Museum.
Present condition: broken and weathered.
Description:
This small fragment is carved on one broad face with part of a ring-knot formed of thick median-incised cords.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Cormack 1995, 61, no 1; Craig 1992, vol 3, 19-22.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
