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Reference
Date 2001
Event ID 583496
Category Documentary Reference
Type Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/583496
Cross-shaft fragment of yellow sandstone, 0.43m by 0.30m and about 65mm in incomplete thickness. It was found in 'a mound' in 1889 (k) and donated to Bute Museum in 1913. Despite heavy wear the face preserves, within a 20mm edge-roll, a series of interlinked trumpet-spirals springing from flat roundels and having small lentoid projections in some of the interspaces. The technique provides the closest parallel from western Scotland for the 'chip-carved' style of spiralwork seen on the crosses at Ahenny (Co.Offaly) and on a fragment from Tarbat (Easter Ross), although it lacks the zoomorphic features of the former. One edge preserves a simple two-strand plait in false relief. (Black 1890, 438; Hewison 1893, 1, 224; Cross 1984, M3).
I Fisher 2001.
