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Burghead
Cross Slab (Pictish)
Site Name Burghead
Classification Cross Slab (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Burghead 9
Canmore ID 319236
Site Number NJ16NW 5.08
NGR NJ 1088 6914
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319236
- Council Moray
- Parish Duffus
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Burghead 9, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.19m, W 0.19m, D 0.05m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 109 691
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.124)
Evidence for discovery: found ‘a few years’ before 1861 during digging near the point of the Burghead promontory and presented to Elgin Museum. Burghead is the site of an early medieval fort and ecclesiastical foundation, possibly dedicated to St Ethernan as a nearby well is known as St Ethan’s Well.
Present condition: all edges are fractured and there is damage to the carving.
Description
This small fragment is precisely carved in relief on one face with key pattern and a small part of the flat-band moulding that edged the slab,
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 139.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Reference (1903)
No. 9 A fragment of a cross-slab of sandstone, measuring 7 1/2ins high by 7 1/2ins wide by 2ins thick, was found in digging near the point of the headland. It has a panel of incised key pattern decoration on one face. In Elgin Museum.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.
