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Barhobble Description of stone
Event ID 1084550
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084550
Barhobble 6, cross slab fragments
Measurements: A, H 0.13m, W 0.13m, D 0.02m; B, H 0.15m, W 0.09m
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 very weathered.
Description:
These two fragments form part of a disc-headed cross-slab: fragment A comes from the top of the shaft and fragment B from lower down the shaft on the left-hand side. There are traces of a plain moulding along the edge, enclosing a panel of four-cord interlace.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Cormack 1995, 62-3, no 9; Craig 1992, vol 3, 19-22.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
