Meigle
Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Meigle
Classification Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Meigle Museum; Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 20
Canmore ID 30850
Site Number NO24SE 25.20
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30850
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Meigle 20, Perthshire, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.30m, W 0.17m, D 0.10m
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
From Stuart’s drawing, this fragment appears to have been part of a cross-slab, trimmed down for reuse to just a portion of the shaft. Carved in relief is part of a band of diagonal key pattern within a roll-moulded border.
Date: ninth to eleventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, 39, pl 127.16; ECMS pt 3, 329, 336.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
NO24SE 25.20 2872 4459.
Meigle No.20 is a fragment of sandstone, of nearly rectangular shape but broken at the two ends, 1 foot long by 7 inches wide, sculptured in relief on one face thus (J R Allen and J Anderson 1903)-
Front - Part of a panel, containing diagonal key-pattern of the same class as No. 944 (1)
This fragment was built into the walls of the old church at Meigle before 1857 and is now in the Meigle Museum there.
J Stuart 1856
Publication Account (1964)
Part of a panel with key pattern. Horseman on other side.
S Cruden 1964.
Note (1990)
NO24SE 25.20 2872 4459.
A rectangular fragment of sandstone (0.3m by 0.17m by 0.1m thick) bears a panel with diagonal key-pattern on one face and two legs of a horse and the foot of its rider on the other.
Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990.
