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Inverkeilor Parish Church
Socketed Stone (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inverkeilor Parish Church
Classification Socketed Stone (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 286661
Site Number NO64NE 1.02
NGR NO 66439 49610
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Inverkeilor
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Inverkeilor Parish Church, Angus, socketed stone
Measurements: L 0.84m, W 0.78m, H over 0.40m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 66439 49610
Present location: lying half-buried in the west corner of the burial ground at Inverkeillor.
Evidence for discovery: recorded in 2006. Its present location in the graveyard, beside the wall of a burial aisle, is unlikely to be its original site.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
A well-shaped stone, this has a rectangular socket measuring 0.30m by 0.11m at its base and a depth of 0.25m.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Borland, Fraser & Sherriff 2007, 102-4.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
NO64NE 1.02 NO 66439 49610
Situated in the W corner of the burial-ground of the parish church, adjacent to the SW side of a burial aisle, this socket stone is a bun-shaped block of red sandstone measuring at least 0.84m from NNW to SSE by 0.78m transversely. Only the uppermost part of the stone is now visible, standing some 0.18m in height, but tentative probing has shown it to be at least 0.41m in thickness. The rectangular socket, which measures 250mm in depth, widens from a subrectangular bottom (300mm by 110mm) to a longer and much broader opening that has certainly been very heavily eroded and has also probably been reworked.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) February 2007.
