Description of stone
Event ID 1010242
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010242
Abernethy 2 (?St Bridget), Perthshire, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.36m, W 0.23m, D 0.07m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 1900 1641
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB 98)
Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard in 1890, it was presented to the museum in 1892 by Alexander Laing.
Present condition: damaged.
Description
This is part of a slab carved with figural ornament and an inscription in bind ogham. Three ogham letters appear within a band formed by two horizontal incised lines, above which are traces of two equine legs. The ogham reads QMI.
Date: ninth century.
References: Butler 1897, 230, pl 2; ECMS pt 3, 308-10; Forsyth 1996, 2-10.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
