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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 731036
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/731036
NX44SW 56.10 4449 4028
(10) Small headstone of the Whithorn School, found built into the back of a house in the High Street.
On the front is a plain cross with a small central boss and expanded arms; the shaft is filled with badly designed interlace with pellets among the strands, which have a central groove. On the back is a similar cross, also with interlace and pellets on the shaft. The top and one edge have a continuous T pattern. On the other edge is a mutilated inscription in Anglian runes. This may be restored:
(BECUN DON) FERTHS
(The monument (or cross) of Donferth.)
The monument served as a headstone to the grave of Donferth; it dates from the late 10th or 11th century.
Radford and Donaldson 1953b, 41.
