What is recorded here

Six sandstone cross-slabs are buried in the inner graveyard wall at Bobsville, their ringed marks half-swallowed by mortar and time. They emerged during later work and were not lost but waiting, tucked into the boundary like forgotten tools. The smallest has lost its upper half, leaving a stubby shaft and an empty space where the cross should rise. That absence does not weaken the place; it completes it, because the missing part may still exist somewhere beneath the soil, patient and unbroken.

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 (16)). 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 small solid-ring cross has lost its upper half (Wth 0.32m; H 0.39m) and has a short shaft (Wth 0.15m; H 0.25m). 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 centuries), 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 contexts.

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