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St Vigeans

Carved Stone (Period Unassigned)

Site Name St Vigeans

Classification Carved Stone (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 35572

Site Number NO64SW 3.20

NGR NO 6383 4294

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

St Vigeans 20 (St Vigianus), Angus, carved fragment

Measurements: H 0.25m, W 0.40m, D 0.13m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289

Present location: in St Vigeans Museum (HES).

Evidence for discovery: recorded in 1872 in re-use in the fabric of the church, and by 1903 it had been removed and placed in the porch. It was taken into St Vigeans Museum in 1960.

Present condition: the fragment has been trimmed for re-use, and the carving is very worn.

Description

The remains of sunken rectangular mortise holes indicate more than one episode of re-use of this stone, which may originally have been part of a frieze or a recumbent. Face A is carved in relief with two confronted quadrupeds with clawed feet.

Date range: ninth or tenth century.

Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 277; Geddes 2017, no VIG020.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017

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Reference (1964)

NO64SW 3.20 6383 4294

No.20. Fragment with two animals, that on right is beaked and clawed, probably a griffin.

S Cruden 1964

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