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Archaeology Notes
Date 1990
Event ID 685989
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/685989
NO24SE 25.03 2872 4459.
The upper part of a gabled cross-slab was formerly built into the wall of the old parish church (NO24SE 33.00), and the lower part of the stone has been re-shaped on two occasions; the slab now measures 0.41m in height, 0.33m in width and 0.07m in thickness. The cross has rounded armpits and is decorated with key-pattern around a central triple spiral; to the left of the shaft there is a fragmentary double-disc symbol. On the back there is a bearded horseman with a spear, a sword in a scabbard with a chape, and a pointed shoe; his saddle-cloth bears
a striped pattern.
Chalmers, followed by Stuart, illustrated a tenon at the base of the fragment, as though the stone had been refashioned in antiquity in order to fit into a socketed recumbent slab, but the tenon no longer survives, and this feature is thus shown within dashed lines on the accompanying figure.
Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990
P Chalmers 1848; J Stuart 1856.
