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Cross-slab in Saggart

Cross-slab
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Granite slab or pillar-stone with rounded or hogback shape set upright in the NW end of Saggart graveyard (DU021-034003-). It is shaped and bordered and bears a single shaft with a ring-headed cross at each end and mouldings along the edge (dims. L 1.42m, Wth 0.32-0.47m, T 0.25-0.39m). Ó hÉalidhe has suggested a tenth-century date (Ó hÉalidhe 1973, 103, 61; Bradley & King 1987, 2, 294; Swords 2009, 101). To see a 3D model of the cross-slab visit https://skfb.ly/oEBCs Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 March 2023

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