St Vigeans
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 35576
Site Number NO64SW 3.24
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35576
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 24 (St Vigianus), Angus, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.17m, W 0.17m, D 0.10m
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: worn.
Description
This fragment is the top left-hand corner of face A of a cross-slab, the lower part of which is VIG012. It adds part of the upper arm and an elegant creature with a horse’s head to the left of the upper arm, and on face C it adds part of the upper arm of the cross and a panel containing a vine scroll to the right.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 278-9; Geddes 2017, no VIG024.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.24 6383 4294
No.24. Fragment of a cross-slab (probably No. 12) with the top arm of a cross; on the right a scroll of foliage. On the back the top arm of another cross ornamented with interlace, upper part of a beast in a sunken panel on the left.
S Cruden 1964
