Migvie Description of stone
Event ID 1022129
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022129
Migvie 1 (St Finan), Aberdeenshire, Pictish cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.75m above ground, W 0.75m, D 0.33m
Stone type: gneiss
Place of discovery: NJ 4365 0682
Present location: set upright in the kirkyard.
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging in the kirkyard around 1861.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
This irregularly shaped slab is carved in a mixture of relief and incision. On face A there is a relief cross formed of fat median-incised interlace, with strap-and-buckle shaped projections at the junctions of the arms and at the corners of the upper arm. Two S-shaped figures spring from the foot of the shaft. Above the left arm is a double disc and Z-rod symbol, above the right arm a unique arch (or horseshoe) and V-rod, and below the left arm a pair of shears. Near the base of the cross-shaft on the right is a horseman facing the cross, and there is another horseman incised on face C, the horse showing the same gait and also facing left.
Date: ninth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 191-3; Fraser 2008, no 34.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
