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Wester Denoon 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1036347
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036347
Wester Denoon 2, Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.m, W 0.m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 3476 4317
Present location: Meffan Institute, Forfar
Evidence for discovery: found during the demolition of a nineteenth-century bothy at Wester Denoon Farm. It had been re-used as building material in the wall of the bothy.
Present condition: broken but carving good.
Description
This fragment comes from the basal part of a cross-slab, carved in low relief on one face. There is a plain flat-band moulding along both intact edges, and the base of a cross-shaft set centrally within the frame. The shaft has a roll moulding and is filled with diagonal key pattern. It is flanked on either side by a spiral which is probably the tail of some form of S-dragon.
Date range: eighth century.
Primary references: DES 10 2009, 32-3.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
