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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 711034
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/711034
NT15NE 3 1758 5919.
(NT 1738 5919) Font Stone (NAT) Cross Socket (NR)
OS 6" map (1962)
The "Font Stone", on the crest of Monks Rig, is a roughly dressed rectangular stone, 3 ft 2 ins x 2 ft 4 ins x 1 ft 3 ins, with a rectangular hollow, tapering towards the bottom, cut out on the top side. It is the socket stone of a cross, the ornamented top of which was said to be still lying at the bottom of the rig in 1808.
In 1833, two shepherds levered over the stone and found a few copper coins, the date and subsequent history of which are unknown (J J Wilson 1891).
RCAHMS 1929, visited 1913; F R Coles 1899; OSA 1794
