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Craiglemine
Cross (Early Medieval), Cross (Early Medieval)
Site Name Craiglemine
Classification Cross (Early Medieval), Cross (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 63102
Site Number NX43NW 11
NGR NX 405 391
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63102
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Glasserton
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
Craiglemine 3 (Carleton), Wigtownshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.38m, W 0.21m, D 0.5m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX c 399 390.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1926 at Carleton Farm and said to have come from Craiglemine.
Present location: Whithorn Museum.
Present condition: the base is missing but otherwise good.
Description:
This slab bears a cross in low relief, the smooth face of which contrasts with the pecked background. The cross has wedge-shaped arms and a cusped and slightly swollen shaft.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Craig 1992, vol 3, 48-9, vol 4, pl 111.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
NX43NW 11 405 391.
Two fragments of sculptured stones which were found at Craiglemine (NX 405 391) are in the NMAS. One (Acc No IB 121) is the lower portion of a cross-shaft 3'3" x 1'6" x 3", with interlacing. The other, (IB 122) is a fragment of a cross-head 13" long, with a boss and circular depression. A third cross from Craiglemine, is at Carleton (NX 392 379). It measures 1'2" x 7 3/4 " x 1 3/4". A 10th century date is suggested for those crosses; though Collingwood also suggests that a chapel existed where they were found, Anderson states that there is no record or tradition of a chapel at Craiglemine, and in all probability the crosses originally were in the graveyard at Glasserton, about 1ml away (see NX43NW 10). RCAHMS 1912; W G Collingwood 1925; R Anderson 1926; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1887
The Carleton cross is now in Whithorn Museum and is as illustrated. Nothing is known of a chapel at Craiglemine.
Visited by OS (DWR) 1 February 1973
Note (1912)
Crannog, Black Loch Plantation, Monreith.
The O.S. map indicates the site of a crannog in the Black Loch plantation within the policies of Monreith. Some slight excavation was done on this crannog some twenty-five years ago. There was found a pavement of flat stones laid in clay about 9' in diameter and irregularly circular; stones, much fire marked; grinding stones of white quartz; and masses of corroded iron and vitreous slag.
See Ayr. and Gall. Arch. Coll., v. p. 82 (footnote).
O.S.M., WIGTOWN, xxx. SE.
