Archaeology Notes

Event ID 687923

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO34NE 4 3526 4745

For Eassie, Old Parish church, see NO34NE 3.

(NO 3526 4745) Standing Stone (Sculptured) (NAT)

OS 6" map (1959)

An upright, symbol-bearing, Class II cross-slab of old red sandstone, rectangular in shape but slightly pointed at the top, 6'8" high by 3'4" by 9" thick.

It is sculptured in relief on both faces, the front bearing the cross, two angels, a man with spear and shield, a stag, a hound and a unidentifiable beast. The back bears the 'elephant', double-disc and Z-rod symbols, four human figures, three of them in procession, and a pot with a flower or tree growing in it. Parts of the bodies of three cows and an arched object have been broken away.

The stone was found in the bed of a stream near the church, to the east end of which it was removed about 1850.

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; A J Warden 1880