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Barhobble Description of stone
Event ID 1084538
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084538
Barhobble 2, Airylick, Wigtownshire, cross slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.61m, W 0.28m
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 cross slab fragment is carved in low relief on one broad face with a cross with an inner incised line forming a roll moulding. The arms are expanded with oval hollows between them, and there is a ring and dot in the centre of the cross-head. At the top of the shaft is an incised swastika pattern, and the shaft appears to have been filled with interlace on the left and lightly pecked lattice-pattern on the right.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Cormack 1995, 61-2, no 2; Craig 1992, vol 3, 19-22.
