What is recorded here

Six sandstone cross-slabs stand in the inner graveyard wall near the south-west entrance at Bobsville, their edges worn by rain and time. The largest bears a ringed cross with T-shaped terminals and faint lettering above and below the intersection, marking a place where memory was cut into stone before it was written anywhere else.

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 (13)). At the moment there are six sandstone cross-slabs incorporated into the inner face of the graveyard wall close to the entrance at SW. The largest stone (dims 1.24m x 0.32-0.55m) has a ringed cross and T-shaped terminals defined by double lines. OR DO is inscribed above the crux and SOM SUD -- OU beneath it. 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 AD), 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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