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Barhobble Description of stone
Event ID 1084542
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084542
Barhobble 5, cross slab fragment
Measurements: H 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:
This very worn fragment appears to be part of a cross carved in false relief, with expanded arms and rounded armpits. There may have been a wide flat-band moulding round the edge of the slab.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Cormack 1995, 62-3, no 7; Craig 1992, vol 3, 19-22.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
