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Wester Denoon
Cross Slab (Pictish), Marriage Stone (18th Century)
Site Name Wester Denoon
Classification Cross Slab (Pictish), Marriage Stone (18th Century)
Canmore ID 318084
Site Number NO34SW 28.02
NGR NO 3474 4318
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/318084
- Council Angus
- Parish Glamis
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Wester Denoon 2, Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.m, W 0.m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 3476 4317
Present location: Meffan Institute, Forfar
Evidence for discovery: found during the demolition of a nineteenth-century bothy at Wester Denoon Farm. It had been re-used as building material in the wall of the bothy.
Present condition: broken but carving good.
Description
This fragment comes from the basal part of a cross-slab, carved in low relief on one face. There is a plain flat-band moulding along both intact edges, and the base of a cross-shaft set centrally within the frame. The shaft has a roll moulding and is filled with diagonal key pattern. It is flanked on either side by a spiral which is probably the tail of some form of S-dragon.
Date range: eighth century.
Primary references: DES 10 2009, 32-3.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Artefact Recovery (2009)
NO 3476 4317 Part of a Pictish stone and an old marriage lintel were found during the demolition of an old bothy at Wester Denoon Farm. Both were built into the walls and had not been visible before the start of the work. The symbol stone fragment bears the terminals of two spirals on either side of a block of interlacing, all in relief. The marriage lintel bears the date of 1799 with initials of either I or L R and KO and a heart between the initials.
Archive: The stones have been reported to the Finds Allocation Panel
Funder: Angus Council
Moira Greig – Angus Council
