St Vigeans 5 Description of stone
Event ID 1028450
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1028450
St Vigeans 5 (St Vigianus), Angus, Pictish cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.30, W 0.27m, D 0.27m
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289
Present location: in St Vigeans Museum (HES).
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging at the east end of the church prior to 1888 and taken into the church. It was taken into St Vigeans Museum in 1960.
Present condition: broken at the top edges and the other edges are original but damaged. Face C has sheared off.
Description
This fragment appears to be the lower portion of a cross-slab, although there is only a short tenon and it may have stood in the slot of a composite monument. Only face A has intact carving, but face C has lost its original surface. Face A is carved in relief with a plain flat-band border containing a heavily delineated double disc and Z-rod symbol with floriated terminals. Above the symbol is a panel of ornament within its own frame, which appears to have involved lentoid motifs.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 241; Fraser 2008, no 67.5; Geddes 2017, no VIG005.
Desk-based infomation compiled by A Ritchie 2017
