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Description of stone
Event ID 1010275
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010275
Alyth (St Moluag), Perthshire, Pictish cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.37m, W 0.42m, D 0.15m
Stone type: greenish slate or gneiss
Place of discovery: NO c 2447 4880
Present location: in High Kirk porch.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1887 buried in front of the door to the Established Church Manse in Alyth, near the ruins of the old kirk.
Present condition: broken down the left-hand side but carving otherwise clear.
Description
This slab is carved on both broad faces in a mixture of incision and false relief. On face A there is an outline cross with a slender basal tenon, defined by a sunken groove. The centre of the cross-head is marked by a hollow, and the arms and shaft are filled with incised interlace of simple design, linked around the central hollow. In the four spaces between the arms and shaft there are large incised spirals, those on the left being damaged, as is the terminal of the left arm. Face C bears part of a double-disc and Z-rod with hatched internal decoration. The surviving upper left rod ends in a leaf-shape but bears no foliation.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 286-7; RCAHMS 1994, 96; Fraser 2008, no 176.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
