Kirkconnel Description of stone
Event ID 1084796
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084796
Kirkconnel (St Conal), Dumfriesshire, cross
Measurements: H 2.74m above ground, W shaft 0.34m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NY 2498 7537
Present location: in situ about 30m north-west of Kirkconnel graveyard.
Evidence for discovery: first noted in 1912. The churchyard is oval and likely to be early, lying in a bend of the Kirtle Water. The name ‘Fair Helen’s Cross’ relates to a local ballad and appears not to have been applied to the cross before the nineteenth century.
Present condition: one side-arm and much of the upper arm is missing.
Description
This cross was shaped from a single slab of stone. It appears to be plain, but what survives of the head is obscured by a secondary rectangular recess for a panel, as if for a signpost.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: RCAHMS 1920, no 374; RCAHMS 1997, 263.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
