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Cross-slab in Gallen

Cross-slab

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East Wall, West Facing, South off Centre. Diagram Number 25 Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000025 Dimensions: Height .53m Width .61m Cross slab. Lateral sides of slab have concave curve. Top of cross is broken off. Edge straight. Lower edge even. Slab bears a plain ringed cross in false relief. Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive. Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 10 pl iv (Fig. 4)
Date likely to the early medieval period, based on the cross slab form, common in the 6th to 10th centuries. Such stones may have marked burial sites, territorial boundaries, or had Christian symbolic significance.

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