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Culross Abbey
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Culross Abbey
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 273838
Site Number NS98NE 3.06
NGR NS 9889 8625
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/273838
- Council Fife
- Parish Culross
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
Culross 4 (St Serf), Fife, carved stone
Measurements: H 1.32m, W unknown, D 0.11m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS 9884 8628
Present location: in re-use as a lintel over a doorway, now blocked up, in the north-west
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 2004.
Present condition: very worn.
Description
The visible narrow face of this slab appears to be plain, but traces can be made out of carving on the lower broad face, which would have been visible before the doorway was blocked. The other faces are not visible.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: DES 2004, 62.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (July 2004)
NS 9884 8629 A probable cross-slab (thus becoming Culross 4 in the sequence of early medieval sculpture at Culross) was noted on a visit in July 2004. It is of sandstone and in use as a lintel above a blocked doorway in the NW corner of the graveyard boundary wall. Appears to bear degraded interlace on one face. Size c 130 x 40 x 14cm.
M Hall 2004.
External Reference (2004)
NS98NE 3.06 9889 8625
An sculptured stone of early medieval date has been reused as a lintel towards the W end of the N wall of Culross Abbey burial-ground.
Information from I G Scott, 2004.
