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St Vigeans
Cross (9th Century) - (10th Century)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Cross (9th Century) - (10th Century)
Canmore ID 35566
Site Number NO64SW 3.15
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35566
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 15 (St Vigianus), Angus, cross-head fragment
Measurements: H 0.33m, W 0.36m, D 0.11m
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289
Present location: in St Vigeans Museum (HES).
Evidence for discovery: found during the 1870s restoration and built into the interior west wall of the nave.
Present condition: broken across the lower arm and the top of the upper arm is damaged. The surface of the lower arm is missing from face A and that of the upper arm is missing from face C.
Description
This is the head of a solid-ringed or plate cross, with circular armpits and square terminals to the three surviving arms. The ring is plain, and the cross is outlined by a wide flat-band border. A double spiral at the centre of the cross-head is linked to panels of diagonal key pattern. Face C appears to have had interlace in the centre, linked to a panel in the left arm containing four triangular spirals.
Date range: ninth or tenth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 274; Geddes 2017, no VIG015.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.15 6384 4294
No.15. Free-standing cross with its expanded arms decorated with spiral and fretwork or key pattern: shaft restored.
S Cruden 1964
