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Ellon, Castle Road, Ellon Parish Church, Cross-incised Stone
Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Ellon, Castle Road, Ellon Parish Church, Cross-incised Stone
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 20508
Site Number NJ93SE 2.02
NGR NJ 9588 3047
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20508
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Ellon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.76m, W0.31m, D 0.20m
Stone type: reddish granite
Place of discovery: NJ 9588 3047
Present location: beneath the east window of Ellon parish church, forming part of the window sill.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1915, when it was built into the north-east wall of the church, on the right-hand side of a window. After alterations to the church it was built into the east wall.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use.
Description
This trimmed slab is incised with an outline cross with large barred terminals, of which only parts of the arms survive.
Date: seventh century.
References: Ritchie 1915.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (12 December 1968)
The parish church has undergone alterations and the stone, which is as described, is now in the middle of the E wall, and partly obscured by recent plaster work.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L), 12 December 1968.
Desk Based Assessment (1968)
NJ93SE 2.02 9588 3047
There is a carved stone on the right-hand side of the north-east window of the parish church of Ellon just above the window sill. It is of reddish granite, 30ins in length, 12ins in breadth and 8ins thick up to the woodwork of the window. It has been trimmed to fit its position destroying part of the design. It seems to be a portion of a cross, the arms of which were themselves crosslets.
J Ritchie 1915.
Information from OS.
