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Dundee, Invergowrie, St Peter's Church, No. 2
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Dundee, Invergowrie, St Peter's Church, No. 2
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Dargie Church; Old Kirk; Old Parish Church
Canmore ID 319730
Site Number NO33SE 23.02
NGR NO 35069 30150
NGR Description Centred NO 35069 30150
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319730
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Dundee (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Invergowrie 2 (St Peter), Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.43m, W 0.52m tapering towards the base, D
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 35069 30150
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB.252).
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in the 1840s, when it and Invergowrie 1 were built into a window opening in the ruined church, set with no 2 above no 1. Both stones appear to have been trimmed previously for re-use as building stones in the earlier medieval church. In 1947 the two stones were removed and presented to NMAS.
Present condition: worn and trimmed at top and bottom.
Description
This fragment represents most of the upper part of a cross-slab carved in relief on both broad faces. Face A shows a ringed cross-head with central square panel and squared armpits, where the cross is filled with plaitwork. Face C shows parts of two panels, with two confronted figures and an angel in the upper panel, and in the lower panel a horseman armed with circular shield, sword and spear facing left.
Date range: ninth or tenth century.
Primary references: Chalmers 1848, pl 22; ECMS pt 3, 255-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Reference (1903)
No. 2 is the middle part of an upright cross-slab of Old Red Sandstone, of rectangular shape, 1 foot inches high by 1 foot 5 inches wide, sculptured in relief on two faces thus-
Front.- In the middle, a cross ornamented with an eight-cord plait, and with defaced ornament on the four quadrants of the ring connecting the arms. On two of the panels of the background of the cross are on the left the head of a beast; and on the right, part of a rectangular object with a handle.
Back.- The lower part of one panel and the upper part of another, containing at the top, the lower halves of the figures of two men and an angel; and the upper half of the figure of a man on horseback armed with a round shield, a sword and a spear.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903
