Barhobble Description of stone
Event ID 1084539
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084539
Barhobble 3, cross slab fragments
Measurements: L 0.23m, W 0.06m, D 0.06m
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:
Two conjoining fragments form part of the head of a hammer-headed cross-slab carved in false relief with a roll moulding down the surviving left-hand side of the slab. The hammer head appears to have had a convex upper surface, while the side-arms are slightly expanded. In the centre of the head is a double concentric ring. A narrow shaft has false-relief panels on either side and an incised pattern of diamonds within the shaft itself.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Cormack 1995, 62-3, no 5; Craig 1992, vol 3, 19-22.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
