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Strathmartine
Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Strathmartine
Classification Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Strathmartine No.3
Canmore ID 31880
Site Number NO33NE 7.02
NGR NO 3784 3525
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31880
- Council Angus
- Parish Mains And Strathmartine (Angus)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Strathmartine 3 (St Martin), Angus, Pictish cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.41m, W 0.51m, D 0.08m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 3784 3525
Present location: Meffan Museum, Forfar
Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard of St Martin and later taken to Baldovan House and thence to a house near Jedburgh. It was tracked down by Norman Atkinson and returned to Angus in 2006.
Present condition: broken into two fragments but carving crisp.
Description
This is the upper part of a cross-slab with a rounded top, carved in both relief and incision on its two broad faces. Face A bears the upper arms of a cross outlined with a roll moulding, with rectangular terminals and a central roundel. The arms have traces of interlace, while the roundel appears to have been filled with spiral pattern. On the left of the upper arm is a quadruped entwined with a fish-tailed serpent, both of which creatures have goggle eyes. A single quadruped appears to have filled the space to the right of the upper arm. Deeply incised on face C is an ornamented step symbol and the upper part of a Pictish beast symbol with an oval eye.
Date range: eighth century.
Primary references: Stuart 1867, pl 101, no 3; ECMS pt 3, 231-2; PAS Newsletter 39 (2006), 1.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
External Reference (1980)
NO33NE 7.02 3784 3525
No. 3 The remaining part of an upright cross-slab of old red sandstone, 0.4m x 0.5m, sculptured with both relief and incised lines. The front bears the upper portion of an interlaced cross surrounded by biting beasts. On the back, the rectangular step symbol and the upper half of the 'elephant'.
Information from R Jones, 1980.
Note
Missing for around 100 years, Strathmartine 3 was located by Norman Atkinson of Angus Council in 2006 and is now part of their collection.
(Undated) information from Mr J Borland (RCAHMS).
