Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652811

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC96SE 3.01 9691 6483

Set into the W wall of the old church is a sculptured rectangular sandstone cross-slab, 6ft 4ins long, 1ft 11ins to 2ft 3 1/2ins wide and 3 1/2ins thick. The upper arm of the cross is defaced by an 18th century inscription.

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903

Set into the W. wall of the remains of the old church, towards its N. end, is a rectangular slab of grey sandstone 6' 4" in length, 2' 3 1/2" in width at the top, 1' 11" width at the bottom, and 3 1/2" thick. It is sculptured in relief on one face thus:- In the centre of the slab a cross with square ends to the arms, round hollows in the angles, and a ring connecting them together; a short shaft and a rectangular base the whole width of the stone. The ornament on the cross is arranged in five different divisions, the central boss being marked by a change in the pattern. The ornament on the left and right arms and on the base is a key pattern, on the shaft circular knot work; on the top arm the pattern is defaced by modern inscription - ROBERT MCKAY 17. The stone, till recently, stood in the old burial-ground over an eighteenth-century grave.

Visited by RCAHMS, 16th September 1910

The cross presumably dates from the latter part of the 9th century (see also NC96SE 1).

E W MacKie 1975.