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Date 1983

Event ID 1149734

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1149734

Kirriemuir NO 386 539 NO35SE 20

Five sculptured stones from the old parish church of Kirriemuir are now in the cemetery on the S flank of the Hill of Kirriemuir (NO 389 544).

(i) A small Class II Pictish cross-slab found when the old parish church was demolished in 1787.

(Stuart 1856, 14, plate xliii; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 227).

(ii) A Class II Pictish cross-slab, also found in the old church.

(Stuart 1856, 14, plates xiv, xlvi; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 227-8).

(iii) The lower part of a Class III Pictish cross-slab, also found in the old church.

(Stuart 1856, 14,_plate xii ii; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 258-60).

(iv) Part of a sculptured slab bearing the figure of an angel, also found in the old church.

(Stuart 1867, 8, plate xiii, 2; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 260-1).

(v) A Class III Pictish cross-slab, which formerly stood in the churchyard of the old parish church.

RCAHMS 1983

(Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 261; Coutts 1970, 61-2, no. 18).

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