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Date 1983
Event ID 1149746
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1149746
Kingoldrum 1 NO 334 550 NO35NW 3.01, 3.02, 3.03 & 3.04
Three sculptured stones (NMAS 1B 39-41) were discovered when the old parish church was demolished in 1840. A fourth stone has been noted by the OS (see also no. 149).
(i) A Class II Pictish cross-slab; the cross is in relief, and the carvings on the back include a crescent, a mirror and a comb.
RCAHMS 1983
(Stuart 1856, 28, plate lxxxix; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 226).
(ii) A slab with a cross carved in relief on one face.
Stuart 1856, 15, plate xlix; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 257-8.
(iii) Part of a slab bearing a representation of the Crucifixion on one face and a Maltese cross on the other.
RCAHMS 1983
(Stuart 1856, plate xciii; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 258).
(iv) A coffin-cover bearing an incised wheel-headed cross, which formerly lay in the churchyard, has been set up against the S wall of the church.
RCAHMS 1983
(Warden 1880-85, iv, 28).
