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Meigle 7 Description of stone
Date 11 July 2018
Event ID 1039932
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1039932
Meigle 7, Perthshire, Pictish cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.50m, W 0.42m, D 0.07m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2873 4460
Present location: Meigle Museum.
Evidence for discovery: found in the ruins of the church after the fire of 1869.
Present condition: broken, with some edge damage.
Description
This fragment is the rounded top of a cross-slab, carved in relief on both broad faces. Within a plain flat-band moulding on face A are the three upper arms of a cross, itself outlined by a roll moulding. The terminals are rectangular and the armpits stepped, and the interior is filled with diagonal key pattern. The spaces between the arms and the edge moulding contain on the left a seated male figure, naked and bearded, clasping the cross, and on the right a fanged quadruped with its left front leg folded back against its body and a long pointed ear. Face C has no moulding but bears two symbols, a double disc and Z-rod and a double-sided comb, together with part of a third symbol (unidentifiable but not a mirror as ECMS suggests).
Date: ninth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 302-3; RCAHMS 1994, 98, F; Fraser 2008, no 189.6.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
