Meigle
Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Meigle
Classification Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 13
Canmore ID 30842
Site Number NO24SE 25.13
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30842
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Meigle 13, Perthshire, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.15m, W 0.31m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2877 4439
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: recorded in the mid nineteenth century built into the fabric of the eighteenth-century church, which was destroyed by fire in 1869.
Present condition:
Description
This small fragment was carved in relief on one face with diagonal key pattern and an animal with its head turned back.
Date: early medieval.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 93.9; ECMS pt 3, 334.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
NO24SE 25.13 2872 4459.
This sculptured fragment was built into the walls of Meigle Church, but is now lost. It was a fragment of sandstone nearly rectangular, 12" x 6", sculptured in relief on one face. Front, on the left, a bit of diagonal key-pattern; and (on right) a beast crouching down, its head turned backwards.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; P Chalmers 1848
Note (1990)
A rectangular fragment, now lost, which was built into the former parish church (NO24SE 23.00), measured 0.3m in length by 0.15m in height (the thickness is not recorded) and bore a section of key-pattern decoration as well as a crouching animal with its head turned backwards.
Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990.
