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Meigle

Carved Stone (Pictish)

Site Name Meigle

Classification Carved Stone (Pictish)

Alternative Name(s) Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 16

Canmore ID 30845

Site Number NO24SE 25.16

NGR NO 2872 4459

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Meigle
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project (22 May 2019)

Meigle 16, Perthshire, carved fragment

Measurements: H 0.18m, W 0.23m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NO 2877 4439

Present location: lost.

Evidence for discovery: first recorded by Chalmers in 1848, when it was built into the wall of the old church that was destroyed in 1869.

Present condition: unknown.

Description

This small fragment had no intact edge but was carved on one face with part of a horseman armed with a spear and sitting on a saddle-cloth.

Date: ninth or tenth century.

References: Chalmers 1848, pl 20.3; ECMS pt 3, 334-5.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.

Archaeology Notes

NO24SE 25.16 2872 4459.

This fragment was built into the walls of Meigle Church and is now lost. Meigle No.16 was a fragment of a slab of sandstone, of nearly rectangular shape, but broken round all four edges, 9 inches long by 7 inches high sculptured in relief on one face thus-

Front- Part of the figure of a man on horseback armed with a spear and wearing slipppers, riding on a saddle-cloth.

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; J Stuart 1856; P Chalmers 1848

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Note (1990)

This fragment, now lost, which was described by Chalmers as being 'built into the wall within the Church of Meigle', was rectangular (about 0.23m by 0.18m), 'broken round all four edges' (according to Allen and Anderson) and showed part of a shod horseman, armed with a spear. The illustrations by Chalmers and Stuart are not quite identical.

Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990. P Chalmers 1848; J Stuart 1856; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.

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