Meigle 28 Description of stone
Date 22 May 2019
Event ID 1084245
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084245
Meigle 28, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.41m, W 0.48m, D 0.05m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2872 4459
Present location: Meigle Museum.
Evidence for discovery: none but it was first recorded for ECMS in the late nineteenth century.
Present condition: broken along the top edge and damaged elsewhere. The fragment has been broken into two and the lower right corner has broken away since it was recorded in ECMS.
Description
This is the lower part of a cross-slab, with a plain flat-band moulding along the three edges and curved corners. It appears not to have had a base by which it could be inserted into the ground and yet it is small for a recumbent, and it may have been part of an architectural panel. It bears finely executed relief carving on one side only. All that survives of the cross is the lower part of the shaft, which bears traces of an outline moulding and possibly internal ornament, but any carving has been obliterated. On either side of the shaft is a panel of diagonal key pattern, and beneath the base of the shaft is a panel containing seven pairs of triple spirals.
Date: eighth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 339-40; RCAHMS 1994, 101.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
