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Date 1929
Event ID 1114388
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Cross-shaft (Portion of).
This fragment, now preserved in the National Museum of Antiquities, was recovered from the churchyard at Borthwick. It represents part of the shaft of a sandstone cross, ornamented on one face only with debased sculpture in three panels. The lower panel shows two beasts of a crude and unusual character, one of which is possibly intended to represent an elephant.The two upper panels are each occupied by a key-pattern design of debased form. The stone measures 2 ¾ feet in length, 5 ½ inches thick, and tapers in width from 10 inches at the bottom to 5 ½ inchesat the top.
Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxiii (1888-9), p. 351, and Early Christian Monuments, p. 422.
RCAHMS 1929
