Dull
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Dull
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 25621
Site Number NN84NW 13
NGR NN 8070 4912
NGR Description NN 8070 4912, removed to NN 8064 4915
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25621
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Dull
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Dull 2 (St Adomnan), Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.65m, W 0.39m, D 0.07m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NN 8070 4912
Present location: clamped to the exterior of the south wall to the right of the main door to the church.
Evidence for discovery: dug up in a garden in the mid 1950s.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This is the upper part of a cross-slab missing the right-hand edge, carved in false relief with a cross with rectangular terminals and small rounded armpits.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References:
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NN84NW 13 8076 4912 removed to 8064 4915.
(NN 8076 4915) A 9th - 10th century cross has recently (1955) been dug out of a garden, and is displayed.
Information from M E C Stewart to OS, 2 February 1956.
A broken incised cross-slab now preserved in Dull parish church. The finder (D Ligo, Lilac Cottage, Dull) pointed out the spot, at NN 8070 4912, where he dug it up when making a path outside his cottage gate. He recently found a broken rotary quern just inside the gate whilst digging.
Visited by OS (J B) 4 December 1974.
NN 8064 4915. The slab is now mounted behind iron brackets on the outside of the church wall to the right of the main door.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (M J F) 1 December 1978
