Desk Based Assessment
Date 1958
Event ID 687592
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/687592
NO35SE 20.00 3895 5448
NO35SE 20.01 NO 3895 5448 Pictish Cross-Slab
NO35SE 20.02 NO 3895 5448 Pictish Cross-Slab
NO35SE 20.03 NO 3895 5448 Pictish Cross-Slab
NO35SE 20.04 NO 3895 5448 Cross-Slab
NO35SE 20.05 NO 3895 5448 Cross-Slab
(Name: NO 3894 5449) Cross Slabs (NR)
OS 25" map, 1966.
Four Class II and III sculptured stones found in the foundations of the old church of Kirriemuir (see NO35SE 3) in 1787 are in the New Cemetery. One bears a cross with interlaced design and human figures on one side, and on the other, 3 figures and a mirror, comb, etc, symbols. Measures 0.58 x 0.45m.
Another bears a cross and a man on horseback with a dog.
A third bears a cross with geometric figures, humans and animals on one side, and the scene of a hunt on the other.
The fourth portrays a single human figure.
A J Warden 1880-85; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; A Reid 1909.
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; Allen and Anderson 1903).
(ii) A Class II Pictish cross-slab, also found in the old church (Stuart 1856; Allen and Anderson 1903).
(iii) The lower part of a Class III Pictish cross-slab, also found in the old church (Stuart 1856; Allen and Anderson 1903).
(iv) Part of a sculptured slab bearing the figure of an angel, also found in the old church (Stuart 1867; Allen and Anderson 1903).
(v) A Class III Pictish cross-slab, which formerly stood in the churchyard of the old parish church (Allen and Anderson 1903; Coutts 1970; RCAHMS 1983).
J Stuart 1856; 1867; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; H Coutts 1970; RCAHMS 1983.
Information from OS.
