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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Dogton Alternative Name: Dogton Stone; Dogton Stone Cross Shaft;Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 2.732 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Fife Type: Class III Pictish Cross Slab
Nearest Town: Glenrothes Nearest Village: Cluny
Map Ref: NT2360996863 Landranger Map Number: 58
Latitude: 56.158298N Longitude: 3.231464W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Anne T visited on 1st Nov 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The Dogton Cross: With the clocks having gone back an hour on the Sunday before, it was difficult to correctly judge how fast dusk would fall. It was getting a little dark, but whilst we were here, we really wanted to see this stone.
With the roads busy at this time of night, we managed to park just off the road at the entrance to the track leading up to Kinglassie House, just off the B922 and set off up the footpath to find this cross.
The gate into the field the stone was in was an amalgamation of several gates tied together, so it was easier just to step over the tumbled stones by the gate post. Fortunately the field the stone was in had just been harvested, so we walked up through the corn stubble, just as dusk was setting in.
I photographed each face of the cross by leaning over the railings, or poking the camera through the railings, then stitched them together.
The sign on the railings reads: “Dogton Stone. This stone is a free-standing Celtic cross probably 10th century AD. The top and arms of the cross have been destroyed, but the centre boss is still visible on the east face. A horseman is carved below it and there are entwined serpentine animals on the south face. Cared for by Historic Scotland.”
When I got back home and looked at the Canmore records, I was surprised to see the cross and its railings had been, in the not too distant past (photo dated 1927), incorporated into a dry stone wall, no longer there.
For details, visit: Canmore ID 52892 which records in their 1933 archaeological notes: "At Dogton is a much mutilated free-standing cross, erect on its ancient base, and known as the 'Dogton Stone'. The cross, which reaches a height of 4ft 10ins stands on a base measuring 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 by 1 1/4 feet. It is sculptured on its four sides, but the design and ornmanentation are much defaced by mineral stains and weathering except on the south side. The top portion is badly mutilated and the arms are missing. It is set with its main axis almost due north and south, and its broad faces measure 1 foot 8 inches in width."
Dated as 8th to 10th century, they add: "Faces A and D are very defaced. On face C the head had a central boss and at the top of the shaft there are traces of a horseman with a spear. Face B bears a panel with two biting serpents knotted together."
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