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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 652385
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/652385
NC86SW 5 8310 6494.
(NC 8310 6493) Cross Slab (NR)
OS 6" map (1962)
A recumbent slab lying in open moorland and bearing an incised cross of a type otherwise unknown in Scotland and Ireland, the only known parallels being in County Durham, Radnorshire and Carmarthenshire. It lies NE-SW and is irregularly shaped of roughly hewn local sandstone and measures 4ft 6inches by 1ft 9 inches by 8 inches thick and is sculptured on one face only. The latin cross has rounded ends to shaft and arms with
circular depressions in the middle of each. Parallel incised lines are cut down the sides of the shaft and arms.
RCAHMS 1911
The cross-slab is as described but it covers a cist-like structure now filled with small stones.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 1960
The cross-slab lies in a hollow. There is no evidence of a cist-like structure and likewise of any significant stones.
Visited by OS (AA) 1972
No change to latest field report. The absence of the stones in the photograph (1960) seems explained by a small marker cairn just by the cross-slab.
Visited by OS (JM) 1977
