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Publication Account
Date 1964
Event ID 1107235
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1107235
Recumbent grave-stone: slotted on the upper surface for an upright cross. The shaft would apparently have been held secure by two marginal beasts, whose open mouths would appear to grasp it. The beasts have large heads and fangs in both top and bottom jaws. Their bodies die away into a margin of interlace and re-appear at the other end as long beaked creatures confronting one another as on stone No. 4. The upper surface has three panels: three coiled serpents, twelve bosses, two linked sea-horses. On one side, a pair of beasts devour or disgorge a man's body, a leg appears in the mouth of one, the severed head above. In the middle of this side is a human swastika; at the right-hand end, a bear and a horse. On the other side: bear-like and bird-like creatures with spiralled and interlaced tails: the centre piece is a square key pattern, then five horsemen and two running hounds. At the head end of the stone a quadruped with a human head pursues a naked 'Pict' looking apprehensively over his shoulder. S Cruden 1964.
