Ardwall House
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Ardwall House
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Ardwall House Policies; Ardwall Island; Ardwall Isle
Canmore ID 63699
Site Number NX55SE 4
NGR NX 5819 5460
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63699
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Anwoth
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Ardwall Island 1, Ardwall House, Kirkcudbrightshire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.86m, W 0.25m, D 0.08m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NX 57315 49575
Evidence for discovery: recorded in 1925 covering a long cist within the burial ground on Ardwall Island and taken to Ardwall House on the mainland.
Present location: in the grounds of Ardwall House (NX 5819 5460).
Present condition: good.
Description:
One broad face of this thin slab is incised with an outline cross with slightly expanded terminals and rounded armpits. The base of the shaft is now open but may originally have had a squared terminal.
Date: eleventh century.
Primary references: Thomas 1967, 150-1.
Thomas, C 1967 ‘An early Christian cemetery and chapel on Ardwall Isle, Kirkcudbright’, Medieval Archaeology 11, 127-88.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
Field Visit (2 March 1972)
The cross-slab is at NX 5819 5460.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 2 March 1972.
Desk Based Assessment
NX55SE 4 5819 5460
For Ardwall House (NX 58134 54737) and associated buildings, see NX55SE 12.00.
An 11th century incised cross slab found on Ardwall Island in 1925 now stands in the grounds of Ardwall House (NX 581 547).
Information from OS.
W G Collingwood and R C Reid 1927; C Thomas 1967
