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New Scone
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name New Scone
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) 19 Angus Road
Canmore ID 28169
Site Number NO12NW 38
NGR NO 1382 2619
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28169
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Scone
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
New Scone, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.49m, W 0.40m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 1382 2619
Present location: Perth Museum & Art Gallery (PMAG 1979/5)
Evidence for discovery: found in a garden in New Scone in 1978, the fragment may have come from St John’s kirkyard in Perth.
Present condition: broken and worn, with evidence of modern reworking on one narrow side and the lower edge.
Description
This is the lower part of a cross-slab carved in relief on both broad faces, within a plain flatband moulding. Face A bears a cross with rectangular terminals, square centre and double square armpits, and it is filled with traces of interlace and flanked by panels of diagonal key pattern. The carved area stops well short of the base of the stone, whereas that on face C continues towards the base. The cross on face C has wide rounded armpits which create a lozenge-shaped central panel. Again there are traces of interlace within the cross, and the panels flanking the shaft contain diagonal key pattern in a better state of preservation.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: Lye & Fisher 1981; RCAHMS 1994, 97.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NO12NW 38 1382 2619
(Location cited as NO 138 263). Part of a free-standing cross-slab of fine-grained yellowish-grey sandstone, 0.49m by 0.4m by up to 0.1m in thickness has been donated to Perth Museum, after lying in gardens in New Scone and Perth for the past hundred years. There is some modern reworking. Face A is decorated with a double-square hollow type cross, cf Romilly Allen, no 98A, and the shaft is flanked by panels, with key-ornament, cf Romilly Allen, no 995. Face B is decorated with a long cross with round hollow angles, also flanked by panels of key ornament. The bottom of the stone is incomplete. The stone is without exact parallel, but is similar to stones of 9th to 10th century date from Invergowrie and St Andrews.
D Lye 1979.
Note (14 December 1992)
(Location amended to NO 1382 2619). In 1978 a cross-slab of Early Christian date was found in the garden at 19 Angus Road, New Scone; the stone had been brought there in the recent past, and it is thought to have come from the burial-ground adjacent to St John's Kirk, Perth (NO12SW 41.01). The stone, which is now in Perth Museum and Art Gallery (PMAG 1979/5), is part of a free-standing cross-slab of yellowish grey sandstone (measuring 0.49m by 0.4m and up to 0.1m in thickness). One face is decorated with a panel bearing a long-shafted cross-potent flanked by panels, each comprising two conjoined squares of key pattern. The other face is decorated with a long-shafted cross with round hollow armpits; the shaft is flanked by two elongated panels of diagonal key-ornament. The cross-slab has been identified as a product of the St Andrews School and dated to the ninth or early tenth century (D M Lye and I Fisher 1982).
Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 14 December 1992.
