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Meigle
Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Meigle
Classification Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Meigle Museum; Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 15
Canmore ID 30844
Site Number NO24SE 25.15
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30844
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Meigle 15, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.23m, W 0.31m, D 0.04m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2877 4439
Present location: in Meigle Museum.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded by Skene in 1832, when it was built into the wall of the old church that was destroyed in 1869.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use as a building stone, the stone has been split and only one carved face survives. One original edge of face A is intact, and the carving is very worn.
Description
The width of the fragment is almost complete, showing that this was a very small cross-slab with a roll moulding along the edge. Face A is carved in relief with what is probably the lower part of the shaft of a cross, outlined with roll moulding which encloses a four-cord interlace pattern. The shaft is flanked by beasts set vertically: on the right an animal with its head turned back and a very long snout, while on the left two quadrupeds grapple with each other’s hind quarters.
Date range: ninth century.
References: Skene 1832, 22; ECMS pt 3, 334, 335; RCAHMS 1994, 98.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
NO24SE 25.15 2872 4459.
A fragment of what has been an unusually small cross-slab measures 0.3m by 0.24m and up to 0.03m in thickness, and bears part of the shaft of the cross with interlace ornament; it is flanked by two intertwined biting beasts on one side and a crouching beast biting its own back on the other.
Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990.
Publication Account (1964)
No. 15 Lower part of upright cross-slab: the bottom of the shaft has interlace; on the left, two beasts bite each other: on the right, a beast bites its back.
S Cruden 1964.
