Mountblow
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Glasgow Museums has a collection comprising one artefact from Mountblow, Lanarkshire, that dates from between about AD 600 to 1100. This collection contains a decorated stone cross shaft made of sandstone. Its front face is divided into four panels. The top panel showing the hind part of a beast with its tail over its back, below is a figure on horseback, and the two lower panels and sides have twelve-cord and fourteen-cord plait ornamentation. The shaft was discovered near Sandyford in 1793 when it was being used as a footbridge and was known as a ‘runic stone’. The shaft was rescued and placed in the grounds of Mountblow House by Robert Donald, then Lord Provost of Glasgow.
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