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Field Visit
Date 6 August 1929
Event ID 1173788
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1173788
(1) In the private chapel of the mansion-house at Graemeshall, built against the N. wall near the altar, is a rectangular cross-slab of sandstone (ECM, iii, 21-2), found many years ago in the floor of the parish church at Holm and removed to its present position for better preservation. Sculptured in relief on one face only, it is 4 ft. 9 in. in length, while its width is 15 in. at the ends and 1 ft. 4 ½ in. in the middle. Around the edge is a flat moulding, within which a cross, slightly raised above the background, is outlined by a similar but narrower moulding. The cross rises from a square base, and originally the whole design was elaborately ornamented. The upper portion is now very much defaced, but the shaft and base still show clear traces of interlaced work of varied pattern.
(2) In the same chapel is a small sepulchral slab, incised with three swords, found in the churchyard of Holm. The stone is remarkable for the triple sculpturing of the sword, which is of very rare occurrence (PSAS, xxxc, 150). A slab with three swords sculptured in relief at Finlaggan, Islay,is figured in Graham's Carved Stones of Islay, p.29.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 6 August 1929.
