What is recorded here
Half a metre of broken stone, set high on a west wall in Gallen, still carries a cross with hollow angles and a small circle at its heart. The top is gone, the edge snapped clean, yet the shape remains sharp enough to mark death and prayer in the same breath. Copper brackets hold what the storm took, proving even loss can be displayed when someone chooses to remember it.
West Wall, East Facing, Centre.
Inventory of Carved Stone, ID000031
Dimensions: Height 0.58m Width 0.34 Depth 0.08m
Set on ledge high on wall, copper brackets attach upper part and base set in metal shoe, upper edge damaged, top of cross / circle missing. Graveslab. Upper edge broken, tapers inward to base, upper part of stone bears equal armed cross with hollow angles and central circular depression enclosed in triple line circle.
Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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