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Inchmarnock, Midpark
Cross (Early Medieval)
Site Name Inchmarnock, Midpark
Classification Cross (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Carved Stone 10
Canmore ID 301940
Site Number NS05NW 2.10
NGR NS 0232 5970
NGR Description c
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/301940
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish North Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
Artefact Recovery (1889)
Reference (1893)
Photographic Record (1975)
Photographic Record (1987)
Measured Survey (1992 - 1993)
Photographic Record (1993)
Reference (2001)
Cross-shaft fragment of yellow sandstone, 0.43m by 0.30m and about 65mm in incomplete thickness. It was found in 'a mound' in 1889 (k) and donated to Bute Museum in 1913. Despite heavy wear the face preserves, within a 20mm edge-roll, a series of interlinked trumpet-spirals springing from flat roundels and having small lentoid projections in some of the interspaces. The technique provides the closest parallel from western Scotland for the 'chip-carved' style of spiralwork seen on the crosses at Ahenny (Co.Offaly) and on a fragment from Tarbat (Easter Ross), although it lacks the zoomorphic features of the former. One edge preserves a simple two-strand plait in false relief. (Black 1890, 438; Hewison 1893, 1, 224; Cross 1984, M3).
I Fisher 2001.
