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Barmore
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Barmore
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 62401
Site Number NX26SE 7
NGR NX 272 617
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62401
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkcowan
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX26SE 7 272 617.
(Area NX 272 617) A fragment of cross slab is preserved in a rough, modern, dry-store 'shrine' set against the inner face of a field dyke on the east bank of the Tarf near the old ford where it was found, about 1917, on Barmore farm (NX 281 610) north of the main road and where a suspension footbridge leads over the water to Blairderry. (NX 269 620). The mutilated fragment is 1'7" high by 1'4" and the central Latin cross 14" long, is outlined by a 1/2" wide incision, and bears a boss with a central depression at the intersection. Simple incised Latin cross-lets enclosed by 'brackets' occur in the angles. There is no knowledge of any church or graveyard in the area.
R S G Anderson 1925
There is no trace of this cross-slab and no local knowledge of it.
Visited by OS (BS) 5 July 1976
