Inverurie
Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Inverurie
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Old Inverurie Churchyard; Inverurie Cemetery
Canmore ID 191751
Site Number NJ72SE 11.05
NGR NJ 7802 2062
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/191751
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Inverurie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Inverurie 5, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.26m, W 0.24m, D 0.09m
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NJ 6099 3025
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: photographed in Inverurie churchyard around 1890, when it was intact, and again in 1903 by which time it had lost its tenon.
Present condition:
Description
This was a disc-headed cross lacking its tenon. The head was deeply incised with an equal-armed linear cross on both sides, in such a way that the side and upper arms meet at the edges.
Date: early medieval.
References: Ritchie 1911, 343-5, no 1.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017