What is recorded here

Six sandstone cross-slabs line the inner graveyard wall at Bobsville, their ringed crosses cut deep enough to hold shadow even at noon. Crawford recorded one in 1913, but the others emerged only decades later, as if the wall had been keeping them hidden until someone looked twice. The expanded terminals and faded inscriptions suggest a community that marked death with deliberate craft, not haste.

A cross-slab with a ringed cross has been recorded by Crawford (1913, 328, No. 4) and further cross-slabs came to light in the 1960s and 1970s (Moore and Kenny 1976, 35 (11)). At the moment there are six sandstone cross-slabs incorporated into the inner face of the graveyard wall close to the entrance at SW. A rectangular stone (dims 0.72m x 0.25m) has a ringed cross with expanded terminals incised deeply with double lines but the terminals of the arms do not survive and the inscription on either side of the shaft cannot be read. See the attached image. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 12 December, 2014

A cross-slab with a ringed cross, likely dating to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), may have had a Christian ritual or commemorative function, possibly associated with burial or territorial markers. Ringed crosses are commonly found in insular Celtic Christian traditions.

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