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Menmuir 4 Description of stone
Event ID 1031068
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031068
Menmuir 4 (St Aidan), Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.35m, W 0.41m
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: worn and broken.
Description:
The central portion of a cross-slab, this fragment is carved in relief only on face A. The slab is edged with a roll moulding, and the cross has curved arms and rounded armpits above its centre but below there are straight edges to the side-arms, which meet the shaft at right angles. The arms and centre appear to have been plain, whereas the shaft is carved with interlace.
Date range: ninth or tenth century.
Primary references: Stevenson 1959
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
