Photographic copy of three rubbings. The outer rubbings shows the front and back of Fortevion no.1 cross slab. The middle rubbing depicts the right side of a cross fragment from St Mary's Chapel, Aber ...

Description Photographic copy of three rubbings. The outer rubbings shows the front and back of Fortevion no.1 cross slab. The middle rubbing depicts the right side of a cross fragment from St Mary's Chapel, Aberlady.

Date c. 1890 to 1903

Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number E 72605

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 1463014

Scope and Content Forteviot no.1 cross slab, located in the churchyard at Forteviot, Perthshire. The left rubbing depicts the front of Forteviot no.1, a single panel of four variations of interlace. The right rubbing shows the back of Foreteviot no.1, on which Pictish beasts are sculpted in relief. Two slender beasts form a border, their legs touching at the center-bottom, while a horned beast clasps a serpentine creature in its mouth as the serpentine creature is biting on the beast's horn. The middle rubbing shows a portion of the right side of an 8th century Anglo-Saxon cross fragment from the church of Aberlady now on display at the National Museum of Scotland. The fragment was discovered, built in to a wall of the manse garden at Aberlady, in 1863 before being moved to Carlowrie Castle and subsequently donated to NMAS. This rubbing shows Northumbrian-type scroll foliage similar to that appearing on the Drosten Stone at St Vigeans.

Accession Number 2012/85

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