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Dumfries Museum
Trip No.174 Entry No.1 Date Added: 25th May 2022
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dumfries Museum submitted by Anne T on 8th Jun 2022. This is Museum Accession number DUMFM:1960.11.7, recorded on the Future Museum website as Cross Shaft, Kirkconnell. Dated to the 11th century, its dimensions are: height 280mm, width 310mm, depth 110mm. It also has a generic record in Canmore - see Site ID 319221 St Connel's Church.
Points, in his 2016, Dumfriesshire Gazetteer, Pages 173-174, tells us: "Both the front face and the left-hand side are decorated with a band of cable-pattern moulding which wraps itself around both the right-h...
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Log Text: Dumfries Museum: We parked on Whitesands, and walked over the Nith by the Old Bridge, to the NW, then turned left to the Robbie Burns House, then up the hill to the Museum and Camera Obscura.
We lived in Dumfries and Lockerbie between 1992 and 2002, but for some reason had never visited the museum, despite going to many other historic sites, and what an oversight!
Armed with Guy Points' book "A Gazetteer of Anglo Saxon, Anglo Scandinavian & Anglo Norse sites in Cumbria, Dumfriesshire and Wigtownshire, we had a wonderful afternoon in the basement of the tower. Treasures indeed, much appreciated after the dearth of things of visit during the two years of lockdown.
Staff at the museum were incredibly helpful. I've been given the details of someone at the Council (press officer for the museum?) to apply for permission to upload some photographs, and hopefully she'll get back to me shortly.