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RecordAuthor |
Máirín Mac Carron |
ISODate |
2002-06-28 |
Date |
28 June 2002 |
PictureCredit |
Jane Hawkes |
County |
Fifeshire |
Townland |
St Andrews |
OSMapRef |
NO 515165 (351500, 716500) |
Area |
Scotland |
GeneralContext |
View of the back of cross slab, no.19, at St Andrews. |
Location |
in the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral (now in the museum at United College). |
GeneralContext |
Stone Type: Sandstone |
Dimensions |
broken at the top but thought to have been at most 8' high, and the breadth narrows upwards from 20.5'' to 18.5''. |
GeneralDescription |
The Cross shaft is irregularly fractured at the top and has carvings on all four sides. |
GeneralDescription |
The panel at the bottom of the shaft has a key pattern. |
GeneralDescription |
The middle panel has two quadrupeds united in a single face with two birds above them. |
GeneralDescription |
In the top panel there is a small human figure standing between two taller ones. The figure on the right is holding a sword,
and the figure on the left has a small round buckler.
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