Meigle
Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Meigle
Classification Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 17
Canmore ID 30846
Site Number NO24SE 25.17
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30846
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Meigle 17, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.19m, W 0,46m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2877 4439
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by Stuart around 1850 built into the exterior face of the west-facing churchyard wall.
Present condition: unknown.
Description
This was the top portion of a round-headed cross-slab. It showed the top arm of a cross with a rectangular terminal, outlined by roll moulding and springing from a small central roundel. The arm was filled with interlace and flanked by two animals. On the left a hound sitting upright facing the cross, and on the right a possible deer, supine with its head looking backwards.
Date: ninth century.
References: Stuart 1856, 39, pl 127.13; ECS pt 3, 335.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
N024SE 25.17 2872 4459.
See also NO24SE 18.
Meigle No.17 was the upper part of an upright cross-slab of sandstone with a rounded top 7 1/2 inches high by 1 foot 6 inches wide, sculptured in relief on one face thus- Front- In the middle, the top arm of the cross ornamental with interlaced-work No.613; and in the background of the cross (on the left) a beast in a sitting posture; and (on the right) a beast with its feet doubled up underneath its body. This stone was built into the walls of the old church at Meigle and is now lost.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; J Stuart 1856
Note (1990)
Now lost, this fragment (about 0.46m by 0.18m) was the upper part of a cross-slab and was formerly built into the outer face of the wall on the W side of the burial-ground (NO24SE 33.00). The top arm of the cross, which appears to have had rounded armpits and a central roundel, was filled with neat interlace. To the left there was a seated animal, and to the right another animal, possibly a deer, with its feet doubled up under its body. Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990.
