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Publication Account
Date 1915
Event ID 1088403
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088403
97. Sculptured Cross-shaft (fragment) from Coldingham.
This is a fragment of a cross-shaft of red sandstone measuring 1 foot 3 inches in height by 1 foot 2 inches in width and 7 inches in thickness, sculptured in relief on four faces, thus: Front - Part of a panel of interlaced work; Back - Part of a panel containing interlaced beasts, with double outline and pellets in the background as on some of the Mercian stones in England; Right side - Interlaced work and a six cord plait; Left side - Interlaced work. The stone was found in the wall of a farm-house in a field called ‘God's Mount’ (O.S. ‘Gosmount’), which is a part of Coldingham Hill in the vicinity of Coldingham Priory. It is now in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh.
See Early Christ. Mon., pt. iii. p. 429 (illus.)
RCAHMS 1915
