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St Vigeans
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 35573
Site Number NO64SW 3.21
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35573
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 21 (St Vigianus), Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.27m, W 0.23m, D 0.07m
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: broken and damaged.
Description
This fragment comes from the right-hand edge of a cross-slab and is carved in relief on both broad faces. Within a plain flat-band border, face A shows parts of the upper and right-hand arms of a cross, filled with diagonal key pattern, and linked by a segment of ring also with key pattern. The armpit was circular. Face C bears a simple spiral or coil in the corner, above the head of a bridled horse.
The fragment may be part of the same monument as St Vigeans 4.
Date range: ninth or tenth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 277; Geddes 2017, no VIG021.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.21 6383 4294
No.21. Fragment of upright cross-slab. On the front face there are parts of two arms of a cross with their connecting rings. On the other side of the stone is the head of a reined horse, and a single spiral above it.
S Cruden 1964
