Kirriemuir 4 Description of stone
Event ID 1033988
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Kirriemuir 4 (St Mary), Angus, carved stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.88m, W 0.51m, D 0.05m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 3895 5448
Present location: Meffan Museum and Gallery, Forfar
Evidence for discovery: found re-used in the foundations of the old parish church when it was demolished in 1787 and taken to the new cemetery.
Present condition: part of one broad face and part of one narrow face survive, the reverse having sheared off.
Description
This is the lower part of a slab which was probably about 0.60m wide and 0.10m in depth. Within a plain flat-band moulding there is on the right-hand side a narrow panel of square key pattern, and occupying the central panel is a frontal angel with elaborate wings and draped robe.
Date range: ninth or tenth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 260-1; RCAHMS 2003.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
