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Field Visit
Date 7 July 1911
Event ID 1117019
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1117019
Sculptured Crosses. Lying within a railed enclosure, outside the old church, are three sculptured stones –
(1) A slab (fig. 2 [SC 2170482]) 6' 2" in length, 1' 8" broad at the head, and diminishing to 1 ' 2" at the foot, bearing incised on its surface a cross with expanding arms contained within a circle, and set on a shaft resting upon a calvary. On the left side is a broadsword with a midrib, thin depressed quillons, a cylindrical grip, and a triangular or conical pommel set on a plate. The slab is broken in four pieces. (Unrecorded.)
(2) A broken fragment, the shaft of a cross (fig. 3 [SC 1223035, SC 1223036]), ornamented on both sides with a panel of interlaced ornament, in relief on the front, and incised on the back; with a projection from one end, which may have been the lower arm of the cross, sculptured on one face only, with an interlaced pattern in relief. Total length 3', breadth of shaft l ' 2". (Unrecorded. )
(3) A small square panel of interlaced ornament, surrounded by a bead moulding in relief (fig. 4, [SC 1223035]), measuring over all 2' 1" X 1' 4", described in The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland and the Sculptured Stones of Scotland.
Visited 7th July 1911.
