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Meigle carved stones Description of collection

Date 26 June 2019

Event ID 1085419

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085419

Displayed in the old schoolhouse in Meigle are twenty-seven well-preserved carved stones of Pictish workmanship. They include upright cross-slabs and recumbent gravestones, many of them complete, as well as part of an architectural frieze, all carved from local sandstone. Their ornament includes Pictish symbols, the Christian cross, horse-riders, animals both real and imagined, and the great cross-slab (no 2) depicts the Biblical story of Daniel in the lions’ den. In date the stones span the period from the late eighth century to the late tenth century.

Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 296-305, 329-40; Ritchie 1995.

A Ritchie 2019

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