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Birnie Parish Church

Cross Slab (Early Medieval)

Site Name Birnie Parish Church

Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)

Canmore ID 319305

Site Number NJ25NW 1.06

NGR NJ 20654 58718

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Birnie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Birnie 3 (St Brendan), Moray, carved fragment

Measurements: 0.15m by 0.15m, D 0.05m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NJ 2063 5873

Present location: lost

Evidence for discovery: found in the early nineteenth century and taken into the church. Lost sometime before 1971.

Present condition: all edges were broken.

Description

This fragment was carved in relief on one side with part of an interlace design.

Date range: early medieval

Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 136-7.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018

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Desk Based Assessment

Four Class III fragments, two of them probably from the same upright cross-slab, are preserved within the church.

Information from OS

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896-7; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; A D S MacDonald and L R Laing 1973

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