Menmuir Parish Church, Cross-slab
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Menmuir Parish Church, Cross-slab
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Menmuir No. 6
Canmore ID 35136
Site Number NO56SW 3.05
NGR NO 5342 6436
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35136
- Council Angus
- Parish Menmuir
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Menmuir 6 (St Aidan), Angus, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.27m, W 0.20m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 5343 6436
Present location: Meffan Museum, Forfar.
Evidence for discovery: found in the graveyard but not recorded until 1986.
Present condition: very worn and with broken edges.
Description
There are traces of interlace on one face.
Date range
Primary references: DES 1987, 58
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Reference (1987)
NO56SW 3.05 5342 6436
No. 6 A small stone in the Session Room, bears worn interlace on one face; the other face has been broken off. The stone, of local old red sandstone, measuring 0.27m high, 0.20m wide and 0.08m thick, was placed with other christian stones upstairs in the church. On notifying the Session Clerk, Mr G L C Lumsden, he informed us that it had been there for a long time and had been found in the graveyard. The stone is likely to be part of a cross-slab of a similar late 9th-10th century date of the other two cross-slabs at Menmuir.
N K Atkinson and W G Watson 1987.
Reference (1995)
NO 534 643 The five Early Christian cross slabs found at this site were all removed following the closure of the church. They have been put on display in the Meffan Institute, Forfar.
The fragment discovered in 1987 was re-examined and does not bear worn interlace. The pitted surface most closely resembles the 'fire-making stone' from Carlungie Souterrain.
N Atkinson 1995.
Note
NO56SW 3.01 5342 6436 Cross-slab (no. 1)
NO56SW 3.02 5342 6436 Sculptured stone (no. 2)
NO56SW 3.03 5342 6436 Cross-slab (no. 3)
NO56SW 3.04 5342 6436 Sculptured stone and Cross-slab (nos. 4 and 5)
NO56SW 3.05 5342 6436 Cross-slab (no. 6)
