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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.4
Canmore ID 31881
Site Number NO33NE 7.03
NGR NO 3784 3525
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31881
- Council Angus
- Parish Mains And Strathmartine (Angus)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Strathmartine 4 (St Martin), Angus, Pictish cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.18m, W 0.38m, D 0.06m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 3784 3525
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB.47).
Evidence for discovery: ‘found in making a roadway at Strathmartine’ and given to NMAS in 1880.
Present condition: two broken edges but the carving is good.
Description
In relief on face A is part of the shaft or possibly the upper arm of a cross, which is outlined by a roll moulding and filled with spiral pattern, the background is filled with interlace. Face C is incised with the upper part of a Pictish beast.
Date range: eighth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 232-3; Fraser 2008, no 69.2.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
External Reference (1980)
NO33NE 7.03 3784 3525
No. 4 The fragment of a cross-slab, of old red sandstone, measuring 0.38m x 0.17m x 0.06m, sculptured in both relief and incised lines, the front bears the vestiges of an interlaced panel and an irregular scrolled panel; the back, the incised remains of a beast or elephant symbol.
In the RMS (NMAS): Acc.no.IB 47.
Information from R Jones, 1980.
