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Cross Sward
Cross Base (Early Medieval)
Site Name Cross Sward
Classification Cross Base (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 50373
Site Number NT16SE 2
NGR NT 188 609
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50373
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Penicuik (Midlothian)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
Cross Sward, Pentland Hills, Midlothian, cross-base
Measurements: L 0.91m, W 0.86m, H 0.31m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NT c 188 609
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: recorded on Cross Sward, between East Kip and Scald Law, in the Statistical Account in 1794 but removed for re-use in a dyke before 1852.
Present condition:
Description
This was a rectangular stone, with a rectangular socket 0.33m by 0.25m and 0.23m deep.
Date range: uncertain.
References: OSA 1794 vol 10, 420.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NT16SE 2 188 609.
A stone, which stood in Cross Sward (Name: NT 1880 6092), is supposed to have been the pedestal of a cross. It was oblong measuring 3' x 2' 10" x 1' thick, and was sunk into the ground, with a 13" x 10" x 9" deep hole cut in its middle. It was removed by a farmer building a dyke some years ago (Name Book 1852).
OSA 1794
