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Kingoldrum 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1031061
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031061
Kingoldrum 2 (St Medan), Angus, Pictish cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.99m, W 0.61m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 3342 5504
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (IB 40)
Evidence for discovery: found in the walls of the medieval church when it was demolished in 1840.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
The top and bottom sections of this slightly tapering slab are missing, and it must originally have been well over a metre high and carved in relief on both broad faces. Within a roll moulding on face A is a cross outlined by a roll moulding, with rounded armpits and rectangular terminals, the arms and shaft of which are filled with key pattern. The centre bears a roundel consisting of a triple-cord spiral. There were motifs carved above the side-arms but too little survives for identification.
Face C appears to have been divided into two panels by a broad flat-band moulding, with a barely discernible figure on a chair with a zoomorphic terminal to the back, facing right. There are faint traces of carving in the lower panel.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 257-8.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
