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Fyvie
Cross (Early Medieval)
Site Name Fyvie
Classification Cross (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Fyvie No. 3
Canmore ID 19035
Site Number NJ73NE 1.03
NGR NJ 7684 3777
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19035
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fyvie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Fyvie 3, Aberdeenshire, possible cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H 1.52m, W 0.41m, D 0.28m
Stone type: pink granite
Place of discovery: NJ 7684 3777
Present location: built into the east gable of the chancel of Fyvie church, under the window.
Evidence for discovery: it was recognised by the minister in the late nineteenth century, re-used as the lintel over a door at the west end of the 1803 church. He had it removed and clamped side-on to the exterior wall close to no 2, probably the east gable. It was then incorporated into the east gable of the new chancel built in 1903, beneath a window.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use as a lintel, edges damaged and carving weathered.
Description
The width of this slab suggests that it may have been part of a free-standing cross rather than one of the narrow faces of a large cross-slab. The other three faces are apparently uncarved but may have been trimmed. What survives shows two panels of ornament carved in relief: the upper panel has a plain flatband frame, within which is an irregular key pattern, while the lower panel shows a triangular interlace pattern with a central pit in each of the four triangular loops.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 194-6.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
External Reference (1980)
NJ73NE 1.03 7684 3777.
No. 3. The cross-shaft which is positioned in the E gable of Fyvie Church alongside Fyvie 1, 2 and 4 stones, appears to belong originally to this site. It is of red granite, 1.5m x 0.4m x 0.28m and bears an area of key-patterning and a square of interlaced work.
Information from R Jones 1980.
