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The May
Cross (Period Unassigned)
Site Name The May
Classification Cross (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 62912
Site Number NX35SW 5
NGR NX 3016 5154
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62912
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Mochrum
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
May, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, cross-head fragment
Measurements: H 0.26m, W 0.33m
Stone type:
Place of discovery:
Evidence for discovery: recorded in the late 1940s in re-use built into an exterior wall of a farm building at May.
Present location: in situ at May.
Present condition: very worn, but only one face is visible.
Description:
This is the upper part of a solid cross-head with expanded arms and a central boss. The cross is outlined by a roll moulding, and it is filled with continuous open knotwork.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Craig 1992, vol 3, 201-2, vol 4, pl 153.
NX35SW 5 3016 5154.
A cross-slab is built into an outbuilding at May farm (NX 301 515). (This is noted along with the 10th/11th century cross-slabs NX34NW 12, NX34NW 27, NX34NW 30 is presumably of similar date).
C A R Radford 1951
NX 3016 5154. The top of a cross measuring about 0.4m by 0.4m, built into the side wall of an outbuilding at May. It is set about 3.0m from the ground.
Visited by OS (BS) 5 July 1976
