St Vigeans
Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 35580
Site Number NO64SW 3.28
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35580
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 28 (St Vigianus), Angus, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.17m, W 0.19m, D 0.06m
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: broken and worn.
Description
Only one broad face of this fragment retains its carved surface and shows that it belonged to a slab with a roll moulding along the edge, and an inner flat-band moulding with another roll moulding. Traces survive of a possible human figure.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 280; Geddes 2017, no VIG028.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.28 6383 4294
No.28. A small triangular fragment with the head of a man.
S Cruden 1964
