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Description of stone
Event ID 1010514
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010514
Murthly 3, Pittensorn Farm, Perthshire, panel fragment
Measurements: H 0.34m, W 0.35m, D 0.10m
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 0860 3905
Present location: Perth Museum & Art Gallery (1995.319).
Evidence for discovery: found during gardening close to the west wall of the farmhouse around 1990.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This fragment belongs to the upper left corner of a panel from a shrine or screen. It is carved in low relief within a flatband moulding which bears an incised median line. The ornament consists of two confronted and apparently naked figures with long hair and the rear parts of two animals. The human figures are clasping one another’s raised right wrist, and their elongated legs are intertwined with one another and with two snakes whose heads are biting their genitals. The lower animal to the right has a tail ending in a spiral and the upturned tail of the upper animal rests against the back of the right-hand human figure. This panel may belong to the same shrine or screen as the panel found nearby and known as Murthly 1.
Date: mid eighth to mid ninth century.
References: Hall, Henderson & Taylor 1998.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
