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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 686616
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/686616
NO24SE 25 2872 4455.
For Pictish symbol stones, cross-slabs, sculptured stones and objects of similar type held in Meigle Museum, see sub-numbers NO24SE 25.01-25.33.
NO24SE 25.01 Pictish Cross-slab; Cup-and-ring Markings
NO24SE 25.02 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.03 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.04 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.05 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.06 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.07 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.08 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.09 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.10 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.11 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.12 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.13 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.14 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.15 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.16 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.17 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.18 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.19 Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.20 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.21 Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.22 Pictish Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.23 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.24 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.25 Hogback Stone
NO24SE 25.26 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.27 Pictish Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.28 Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.29 Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.30 Sculptured Stone
NO24SE 25.31 Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.32 Cross-slab
NO24SE 25.33 Sculptured Stone
'Old schoolroom, Tudor, c.1845 containing collection of early sculptured monuments'.
SDD List, 1962.
(Area: NO 2872 4459). A collection of about 26 symbol-bearing slabs and sculptured stones known as the "Meigle Stones" is preserved in the old school-house (NO 2872 4455), adjoining the churchyard, which has been converted into a museum.
They were found during the latter half of the 19th.c in the church, churchyard and the immediate vicinity outside.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; S Cruden 1964
Museum visited. No additional finds or information.
NO24SE 25.10, NO24SE 13, NO24SE 14, NO24SE 16 -19 & 24 are not in the Museum.
Nine class II symbol stones.
Meigle 1:A cross is on the face.On the reverse arranged vertically is a salmon,a deer's head and an elephant,a serpent and Z-rod and a mirror and comb.Below the symbols is a hunting scene with five mounted figures,one female,and a hound.
Meigle 3 Double-disc on the cross face.On the reverse is a mounted figure.
Meigle 4:Cross face has an unmounted figure with a horse.On the reverse is a mounted figure over an elephant above a crescent and V-rod
Meigle 5:Cross on the face with a mounted figure on the reverse.On one side of the stone are a mirror-case above an elephant.
Meigle 6:Cross shaft on the face with on the reverse a mounted figure over a double-disc above a crescent.
Meigle 7:Double-disc and Z-rod and a comb on the reverse.
A.Mack 1997 pp.51-53
