Crail, Marketgate, Crail Parish Church
Cross (Early Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Crail, Marketgate, Crail Parish Church
Classification Cross (Early Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Church Of Scotland; Collegiate Kirk; St Mary's
Canmore ID 319291
Site Number NO60NW 2.04
NGR NO 61339 07976
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319291
- Council Fife
- Parish Crail
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Crail 2 (St Maelrubha), Fife, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.66m, W 0.32m, D 0.14m
Stone type: reddish sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 61339 07976
Present location: Crail Preservation Society Museum (1987.43).
Evidence for discovery: found behind no 8 Marketgait ‘some years’ before 1987 and thought to have been removed from the churchyard in order to re-use it as a window jamb stone.
Present condition: trimmed and worn.
Description
This fragment is part of a cross-slab which has been carved both in relief and in incision. In relief is an equal-armed cross within an incised circle, set on an incised shaft.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: DES 1987, 13.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Artefact Recovery (1987)
Part of a small reddish rectangular sandstone grave marker or cross shaft, thought to be originally from Crail Churchyard and found behind No 8 Marketgait was donated to Crail Museum some years ago. The stone has been cut and the edges tooled for reuse as a window lintel and jamb, slightly damaging the cross. Mortar adheres to the cross and other surfaces.
The cross is equal armed, plain, in relief and is set within an incised circle; the shaft is represented by two thin, slightly off-centre incised lines. Diameter of cross 261mm, shaft 50mm wide. Stone 660mm high, 320mm wide and 135mm deep. (Crail Preservation Society Museum Acc No 1987:43).
Notes and photographs with FAI: FAI No 37/31.
E Proudfoot 1987.