Monasterboice and Its Monuments

Harbison, Peter; Roe, Helen

doi:10.2307/27729509

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“…The making of a thin section is a destructive technique and samples obviously cannot be taken from the monuments themselves. By good fortune, several decades ago, two fragments of a further cross were discovered at the site and an account of them was subsequently published by the late Helen Roe (Roe 1981). The carved fragments, now kept in the County Museum in Dundalk, are made of sandstone similar in appearance to that found in the three surviving crosses.…”

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Is Bitumen the Key to the Quality of the Monasterboice Stone Crosses?

Sevastopulo,

Stalley,

Sanders

2023

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The tenth-century high crosses at Monasterboice, with their remarkable panels of stone carving, are unusually well preserved compared with other monuments of the time. A clue to their durability recently came to light during examination of fragments of a small cross discovered at the site that are carved from sandstone impregnated with bitumen. If the major crosses at Monasterboice were carved from the same sandstone, as seems likely, the quality of the carving and its state of preservation might well have been enhanced by the bitumen acting as a weak binding agent and as a water repellent.

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