Meigle
Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Meigle
Classification Cross Slab (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Meigle Museum; Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 29
Canmore ID 30859
Site Number NO24SE 25.29
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30859
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Meigle 29, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.46m, W 0.33m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2872 4459
Present location: Meigle Museum.
Evidence for discovery: none but it was first recorded for ECMS in the late nineteenth century.
Present condition: broken and carving damaged.
Description
This is part of the right-hand side of a probable cross-slab. It is carved in relief on one broad face and one narrow face, and the presence of a plain flat-band moulding on the reverse, face C, may suggest that it too was once carved. Face A shows two clerics standing frontally with a hooked crosier between them, not apparently held by either of them. Each cleric appears to be standing on a pedestal with diagonal key pattern infilling, or the pedestal could be a decorative border to their tunics. More detail survives of the right-hand cleric, whose cloak falls in graceful folds and is held at the shoulders by a pair of linked brooches. Face B bears a series of two-cord interlinked knots.
Date: ninth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 340; RCAHMS 1994, 98.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
Publication Account (1964)
NO24SE 25.29 2872 4459.
No. 29 Part of cross-slab; two clerics with crosiers: enriched robes. The figure on the right has circular brooches on each breast.
S Cruden 1964.
Note (1990)
NO24SE 25.29 2872 4459.
This fragment measures 0.46m in height, 0.35m in width and 0.09m in thickness, and shows two ecclesiastics shown frontally, both wearing vestments with borders of interlace and key-pattern respectively. The fragmentary figure on the left appears to be seated in a throne with a tall side-pillar. On the shoulder of the right-hand figure a pair of shoulder brooches with a fastening chain is clearly indicated. The right-hand edge of the stone is decorated with double-beaded interlace, but the back of the slab is unornamented.
Information from RCAHMS (JNGR), 1990.
