Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652061

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC90NE 1 9525 0993.

(NC 9525 0993) Cross Slab found AD 1869 (NAT)

OS 6"map, (1964)

A sculptured stone was found in 1869 during the construction of Lothbeg railway cutting. It is a portion of an upright cross-slab of purple sandstone, sculptured in relief on three sides.

Front: The left arm of a cross with circular hollows between the arms, ornamental with interlaced work with traces of interlaced work on the background.

Back: The right arm of a cross with square stepped hollows in the angles between the arms and a circular ring connecting them. The arm is ornamental with a key pattern, the circular ring with a sort of cable and the background with interlaced work.

Left Side: Triangular interlaced work. It measures 1ft 7ins long, 1ft wide and 5 1/2 ins thick. Metric measurement - 0.5m (base) x 0.37m x 0.39m (other two sides) x 0.15m (thick).

Now in Dunrobin Museum. No.21.

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; RCAHMS 1911.

This cross slab is still in Dunrobin Museum. (Accession no. 1869.6)

Visited by OS (N K B) 23 April 1976.