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St Vigeans
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 35574
Site Number NO64SW 3.22
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35574
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 22 (St Vigianus), Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.27m, W 0.36m, D 0.08m
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: now attached to VIG023. The lower margin of face A is damaged and the carving is worn. The base has been trimmed of its tenon and has two secondary dowel holes.
Description
This fragment is carved in relief on both broad faces, both within a plain flat-band moulding. Face A has the base of a cross-shaft, outlined by flat-band mouldings and filled with diagonal key pattern. It is flanked by plain sunken panels. Face C bears a horseman, carved in relief with incised details now mostly worn away, but certainly he is holding a spear in his right hand (his head is missing all but the tip of his beard). Both his tail and his left ear impinge upon the edge mouldings.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 277-8; Geddes 2017, no VIG022.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.22 6383 4294
No.22. Lower part of a cross-slab. On the front face is the bottom of a cross-shaft. On the back a horseman armed with a spear. (This fragment is now united with No. 23).
S Cruden 1964
