Dunkeld, Dunkeld Cathedral, Cross-slab
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Dunkeld, Dunkeld Cathedral, Cross-slab
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Dunkeld No. 2
Canmore ID 27160
Site Number NO04SW 1.04
NGR NO 0237 4259
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27160
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Dunkeld And Dowally
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Dunkeld 3, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.99m, W 0.66m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 0237 4259
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: recorded in the mid nineteenth century as having been re-used first as the gravestone of a farmer in 1729 and later incorporated into the stone-paved floor of the cathedral. Allen was unable to locate it.
Present condition:
Description
This fragment was apparently part of the lower left-hand portion of a cross-slab, broken along all four edges when last seen. Face A was carved in relief with part of the shaft of a cross filled with diagonal key pattern, with an armpit closed by an arc, and, to the left of the shaft, a horse standing on its hind legs with an elongated body. Face C had been defaced in order to carve the eighteenth-century inscription.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 16; ECMS pt 3, 39.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Field Visit (4 December 1992)
NO04SW 1.04 0237 4259
See also NO04SW 1.03 and 1.10.
This cross-slab fragment has been re-used as a tombstone in 1729 and subsequently formed part of the paved floor of the cathedral. It is now missing.
It formed part of the shaft of a cross, infilled with key-pattern decoration which was flanked (on the left) by what has been described as a horse standing on its hind legs.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 4 December 1992.
J Stuart 1867; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.
