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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 768536
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/768536
NX44SW 56.21 4449 4028
(21) Cross shaft. The head of the cross is broken off and largely missing. At the foot is a tenon, by which the cross was secured in a stone base. The shaft was found built into a barn at Kirkland of Longcastle, the site of a former parish church.
The base of the circular head remains, shewing that it was plain with a beaded outline to the cross, the expanded lower arm of which is partly preserved. The arms were separated by circular holes, as in No.13 from Whithorn (NX44SW 56.13) and in the complete example in Kirkinner churchyard. The shaft has a slight entasis and is entirely filled with a panel of loosely designed interlace, each strand being marked with a central groove. A single pellet occurs near the lower right corner. The ornament on the reverse is similar with the interlace less coherently drawn.
The tall shaft suggests that the monument was designed as a cemetery cross. The design and the grooved interlace indicate a date in the late 10th or early 11th century.
Radford and Donaldson 1953b, 42.
