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Cross-slab in Gallen

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West Wall, West Facing, Centre. Diagram B26 Inventory of Carved Stone ID 000080 Dimensions: Height 0.335m Width 0.24m Cross slab, incomplete. Tapers inwards towards rounded base. The design, in low false relief, consists of a contoured cross, with central circle. The lateral arms expand, the shaft terminates at both ends in a D-shaped expansion containing a pit. The lower expansion projects beyond the edge of the enclosing circle, which here follows the line of the cross. Two scrolls project upwards and outwards beyond the circle above the top of the cross. A pelta projects inwards from the circle towards the short lateral arms of the cross and the quadrants contain acutely waisted thistle devices. (Or mirror?) Description from Inventory of Carved Stone, National Monuments Service Archive. Kendrick, JRSAI 69 (1939) p. 8 Fig 2 (A44).

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