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Bute, St Blane's
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Bute, St Blane's
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Carved Stone 4
Canmore ID 301990
Site Number NS05SE 5.04
NGR NS 0949 5344
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/301990
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
Measured Survey (1896)
Reference (1900)
Reference (1903)
Reference (1984)
Measured Survey (1992 - 1994)
Reference (2001)
Recumbent graveslab, found in the N wall of the nave; now lost. It was broken across but complete, measuring 1.55m by 0.41m. At each angle there was a flat-topped boss about 0.13m in diameter, linked in pairs by panels which enclosed at the top an incised saltire and at the foot an equal-armed cross. Within a 35mm margin the upper part bore an outline Latin cross with sunken armpits defining the quadrants of a ring, set on a background of plaitwork. Below this a panel defined by mouldings continuous with the margin was filled with diagonal key-pattern, and the panel at the foot was divided vertically into two compartments, the only surviving ornament being a knot formed by two interlaced oval rings.
(Anderson 1900, 322 and fig.29 on p.321; Allen and Anderson, 3, 408-9, no.4; Schultz album, pl.5; Cross 1984, B16).
Fisher 2001.
