St Vigeans
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 35578
Site Number NO64SW 3.26
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35578
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 26 (St Vigianus), Angus, carved fragment
Measurements: from ECMS: H 0.14m, W 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found during the 1870s restoration and placed in the tower.
Present condition:
Description
This small fragment was carved in relief with diagonal key pattern within a plain flat-band moulding, and it may be part of face A of the trimmed cross-slab VIG007.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 279-80; Geddes 2017, no VIG026.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.26 6383 4294
Fragment of an upright cross-slab with scroll work.
S Cruden 1964
