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Menmuir 3 Description of stone
Event ID 1031067
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031067
Menmuir 3 (St Aidan), Angus, Pictish cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.32m, W 0.32m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 5343 6436
Present location: Meffan Museum, Forfar
Evidence for discovery: found in 1943 in the manse garden beside the kirkyard.
Present condition: very worn and broken.
Description
This fragment appears to be part of the upper portion of a cross-slab, carved in low relief on both broad faces. Face A is filled with the upper arm and part of the left arm of a cross with bar terminals and a central square. Traces remain of a probable key-pattern infilling. On face C there is part of a hunting scene within a plain flat-band frame. Two horsemen can be made out, one with a circular shield, and beneath them a stag being attacked by a hound, all moving towards the left.
Date range: ninth century.
Primary references: Stevenson 1959
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
