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St Vigeans
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 35575
Site Number NO64SW 3.23
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35575
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 23 (St Vigianus), Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.30m, W 0.37m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289
Present location: in St Vigeans Museum (HES).
Evidence for discovery: found during the 1870s restoration and placed in the tower. It was taken into St Vigeans Museum in 1960.
Present condition: now attached to the top of VIG022. Broken top and bottom, and the carving on face C has been defaced. The carving on face A is worn and damaged.
Description
This fragment adds the central part of the cross-head to the shaft on VIG022. The cross has a square central panel filled with diagonal key pattern and square stepped armpits.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 278; Geddes 2017, no VIG023.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.23 6383 4294
No.23. The middle part of an upright cross-slab bearing a cross. (This fragment is now united with No. 22).
S Cruden 1964
