What is recorded here
West Wall, West Face, Centre.
Diagram B28
Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000083
Dimensions: Height 0.785m Width 0.66m
Cross slab. Tang shaped slab, with blunt assymetrical base. Two equal-armed single line cross, one on dexter side 0.18m long, sinister 0.17m long, with expanding ends on either side of a vertical dividing line.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 15 (A99) Fig. 8.
Cross-slab in Gallen is likely from the Early Medieval period, associated with Christian symbolism. The single-line crosses may have served a commemorative or territorial function.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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