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Glamis, St. Fergus's Church
Cross Slab (Pictish)
Site Name Glamis, St. Fergus's Church
Classification Cross Slab (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Glamis No. 4
Canmore ID 32063
Site Number NO34NE 16.01
NGR NO 3860 4680
NGR Description Centred at NO 3860 4680
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Glamis
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Glamis 3 (St Fergus), Angus, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.50m, W 0.57m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 386 468
Present location: Meffan Institute, Forfar.
Evidence for discovery: fragments of a cross-slab were found in the churchyard during grave-digging sometime before 1911. This is the only fragment recovered. It was formerly displayed in the church porch.
Present condition: broken.
Description
Carved in low relief is the lower part of a cross-shaft formed of a two-strand interlace and the lower part of a flower symbol.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Stirton 1911; Fraser 2008, no 61.3.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Note (1983)
Glamis NO 386 468 NO34NE 16.
Some years before 1911 part of a cross-slab (now lost) was found by grave-diggers in Glamis churchyard; other fragments of the stone were seen but not recovered.
RCAHMS 1983
(Stirton 1911, 197).
