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Bible Stone
Cross Base (Early Medieval)
Site Name Bible Stone
Classification Cross Base (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 16430
Site Number NJ25NW 3
NGR NJ 2238 5658
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16430
- Council Moray
- Parish Birnie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ25NW 3 2238 5658.
(NJ 2238 5658) Bible Stone (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1959)
A stone about 3 1/2' long, 2' broad and 12" thick, with, on one face, a rectangular socket 7" by 5" by 3" deep.
Until a few years before 1870 it was situated about NJ 2237 5656, but by that year it lay upon a bank at NJ 2238 5658.
'The stone was looked upon as an antiquity and it seems doubtful how long it stood in the previous position, nor is there much known concerning it'
Name Book 1871.
A socket stone, still known as the "Bible Stone" The socket measures 9 1/2" by 7" by 3" deep.
Visited by OS (R L) 15 April 1971.
No change since report of 15 April 1971.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 15 April 1971.
Field Visit (23 September 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
