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Easter Clunie
Architectural Fragment (Period Unassigned), Cross Slab (Early Medieval), Sundial (Period Unassigned), Mould (Stone), Quern(S)
Site Name Easter Clunie
Classification Architectural Fragment (Period Unassigned), Cross Slab (Early Medieval), Sundial (Period Unassigned), Mould (Stone), Quern(S)
Canmore ID 30095
Site Number NO21NW 37
NGR NO 2206 1743
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30095
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Abernethy (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Easter Clunie, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.26m, W 0.31m, D 0.14m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2206 1743
Present location: in private ownership in Easter Clunie garden.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1970 in Easter Clunie garden.
Present condition: some damage but carving good.
Description
This is the upper part of a small cross-slab carved in deep relief on all five surviving faces. Each face is bordered by a plain flatband moulding. Face A bears a cross of which the side-arms and upper arm extend to the border moulding. The cross itself is outlined by a roll moulding and has widely curving armpits, and there are traces of a carved motif at the centre of the cross-head. The arms are linked by a four-strand ring. Face B is carved with a panel outlined by a roll moulding which contains key pattern. Only the top right corner of face C survives, carved with a panel of double-strand interlace within a roll moulding. Face D also has a panel of key pattern but without the roll moulded edging. The upper narrow face E has a panel of two interlaced double-stranded cords.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: Proudfoot 1997, 56-9 (no 12).
Compiled by A Ritchie
NO21NW 37 2206 1743
NO 2206 1743. In the garden of Easter Clunie (NO21NW 107) are two fragments of stone cross slabs, alleged to be part of MacDuff's Cross (NO21NW 9). One bears a cross with round hollow angles and four concentric rings, the other an interlaced design. Both probably date from the 8th-10th centuries.
Visited by OS (J P) 15 September 1970.
One of the two carved stone fragments in the garden at Easter Clunie is part of an Early Christian cross-slab decorated with panels of interlace on its back and top and key-pattern along its sides. The other fragment is of relatively recent date and its purpose is not clear.
Also within the garden are two upper stones of rotary querns, the provenances of which are unknown; one has a neatly drilled handle socket.
In addition, there is part of a sundial, which came from a property in Abernethy that belonged to a relative of Mr Baird, the current owner of Easter Clunie farm.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 11 December 1996.
Note (15 February 2020)
The smaller of two of the cross slab fragments is now on display in Abernethy Museum.
Information from HES (JB) 15 February 2020
