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