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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

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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 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.

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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

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