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Kirk Hill, St Neachtan's Church, Cross Slab
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Kirk Hill, St Neachtan's Church, Cross Slab
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Kirklands; Coldstone Churchyard; Parish Church Of Coldstone; Kirkhill Burial Gound
Canmore ID 288644
Site Number NJ40NW 5.01
NGR NJ 43247 05646
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/288644
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Logie-coldstone
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Kirk Hill (St Neachtan), Aberdeenshire, cross-slab
Measurements: L 0.56m, W 0.28m, D 0.09m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 4324 0564
Present location: lying in the churchyard of St Neachtan’s Church at Logie Coldstone.
Evidence for discovery: found upright in the churchyard in the nineteenth century, probably re-used as a headstone.
Present condition: good.
Description
An oval pillow-shaped stone has been carved with a raised cross within a sunken oval frame. The cross is an outline cross with small circular armpits.
Date: eighth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 186.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
External Reference (21 March 2007)
Scheduled as 'Logie Coldstone, cross-marked stone 160m NE of Kirklands... an early Christian cross-marked stone that lies within Kirkhill burial ground...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 21 March 2007.
Note
NJ40NW 5.01 43247 05646
Not to be confused with Pictish symbol stone within Migvie, Old Parish Churchyard (at NJ 43652 06822), for which see NJ40NW 2.02.
