Banchory, 54 Station Road, North Garden Wall, Cross
Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Banchory, 54 Station Road, North Garden Wall, Cross
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 36663
Site Number NO79NW 10.01
NGR NO 70533 95738
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36663
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Banchory-ternan
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
Desk Based Assessment (24 September 1973)
NO79NW 10 70 95
In the N wall of the manse garden of the East Parish Church, Banchory (NO 70 95), there is a small stone on which is carved the head and a portion of the shaft of an ancient wheel cross. The stone is 14 1/2" x 10"; the cross is 10" in diameter. The position of the stone is c. 27' W of the edge of the back door into the manse garden and c. 1' above the footpath.
Information from OS (SF) 24 September 1973
J Ritchie 1915; Deeside Fld 1935.
Field Visit (24 September 1973)
NO79NW 10 7053 9573
Built into the N wall of the Manse garden there is a stone (0.42m long by 0.25m broad, and possibly the cross-head of a headstone or slab-cross), bearing in relief a wheel-cross and part of the shaft. The cross has squared expanded terminals and small depressions at the armpits.
RCAHMS 1984, visited December 1983.
(A Jervise 1875; J Ritchie 1915; W D Simpson 1943).
