Desk Based Assessment
Date 1967
Event ID 690871
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690871
NO77NW 3.02 7261 7841.
In the vestibule of Fordoun parish church (at NO 7260 7844) there is a Class II 'Pictish' cross-slab which had been used as the base of the pulpit of the church of 1788. The face bears a Latin cross, part of a 'sea monster', a double-disc and Z-rod, a hunting scene with three horsemen and dogs, and two inscriptions, one in Hiberno-Saxon miniscules (on the face) and the other in Ogam (on the edge). It is named the 'Fordoun Stone' (Jervise 1859).
Information from OS
RCAHMS 1982; A Jervise 1859; J R Allen 1892; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; J Stuart 1822.
