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Woodrae 2 Description of stone

Event ID 1036350

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036350

Woodwrae 2, Angus, Pictish cross-slab?

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Place of discovery: NO 5185 5663

Present location: lost

Evidence for discovery: found around 1819 in the floor of the kitchen ‘when the foundations of the old castle were cleared away’. It ‘lay carelessly about for many years, and at length disappeared altogether’.

Present condition:

Description

The stone was said to be ‘much mutilated, bearing similar carvings’ to Woodwray 1.

Date range:

Primary references: Jervise 1857, 194.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.

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