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Field Visit
Date 3 July 2000
Event ID 764085
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/764085
NJ61NE 4.01 6850 1524
See also NJ71NW 12.
Three cross-incised stones have been found at Monymusk Parish Church. One is now lost but the other two now lie loose beside the Class II Pictish symbol stone (NJ71NW 12) on the floor of the tower of the church.
The first is a flat slab, measuring 400mm by 320mm and 50mm in thickness, which is broken on one side. The upper surface bears the pecked and incised figure of a cross within a circle. The reverse bears an incised Latin cross with a curved line linking the terminals of the cross-bar and the upper arm.
A photograph by James Ritchie, published by W D Simpson (1925, 57, Fig.9), shows this stone in reuse in the floor of the tower, the circled cross upwards.
The second stone is an irregular granite block, measuring 460mm by 430mm and 110mm in thickness. It bears a deeply incised swastika, the terminal of each arm curving in towards, but not meeting, the adjoining arm.
The third stone formerly stood in the churchyard. It too was photographed by Ritchie and published by Simpson, the photographs showing an unshaped block with an incised cross on one face. The arms of the cross were apparently of equal length and had expanded terminals. The stone was not located in either the church or the graveyard on the date of visit.
Visited by RCAHMS (IF), 3 July 2000.
W D Simpson 1925.
