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Rosemarkie
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Rosemarkie
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Groam House 2
Canmore ID 259993
Site Number NH75NW 7.10
NGR NH 737 576
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/259993
- Council Highland
- Parish Rosemarkie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Rosemarkie 10, Ross & Cromarty, recumbent cross-slab fragments
Measurements: H 1.45m, W 0.45m + tapering to 0.40m at the foot
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 737 576
Present location: Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie (ROMGH.1992.6-7)
Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard at Roemarkie in 1974.
Present condition: the slab is broken into three fragments, and the top right-hand corner is missing.
Description
These fragments comprise most of a recumbent gravestone bearing an incised cross on a stepped base. The entire cross and base are outlined by a double incised line, and the armpits are slightly sunken. The surviving side-arm extends out to the edge of the slab, but the upper arm stops well short of the head of the stone. The base is has a single step and spans the width of the slab, with a wide tenon beneath. Within the base is a sunken shape echoing the shape of the base itself.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017 Seright & Henderson 2013, 13.
MH75NW 7.10 737 576
Cross-slab, broken into three parts, bearing an incised cross rising from a cruciform base (Groam House 1992.7 and 1992.6).
MS/1785
