Rosemarkie
Grave Slab (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rosemarkie
Classification Grave Slab (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Rosemarkie Church; Rosemarkie Churchyard; Groam House 14
Canmore ID 139195
Site Number NH75NW 7.09
NGR NH 737 576
NGR Description NH c. 737 576
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Rosemarkie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Rosemarkie 14, Ross & Cromarty, recumbent gravestone fragment
Measurements: H 0.44m, W 0.30m +, D 0.14m
Stone type: pink sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 737 576
Present location: Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie (ROMGH.1998)
Evidence for discovery: found in a garden near the church in Rosemarkie in 1998.
Present condition: broken along three edges and worn.
Description
This is part of the right-hand side of a tapering recumbent gravestone, carved in relief with a roll moulding along the edge and two stylised plant forms springing from an inner raised band.
Date: fourteenth or fifteenth century.
References: Seright & Henderson 2013, 11.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
NH75NW 7.09 c. 737 576
NH 737 576 Found in a garden near Rosemarkie Church. Fragment (450 x 280 x 135mm) of a tapered slab with bevelled edge. Carved in low relief, it bears two oblique stems springing from a raised panel at the left. The stems have central channels which merge into stylised trefoils with pointed central leaves. Part of a grave-slab. Pink sandstone.
Sponsor: Groam House Museum.
S Seright, H Fearn and I Fisher 1998
