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. 32; Meigle A3
Canmore ID 30863
Site Number NO24SE 25.32
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30863
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Meigle 32, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.37m, W 0.20m, D 0.07m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2872 4459
Present location: Meigle Museum
Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard in the twentieth century.
Present condition: broken but carving good.
Description
This small fragment is part of the left-hand area of a cross-slab carved in relief. It shows the left-hand terminal of the cross-head filled with spiral work, and below part of a panel of paired spirals, both bordered by a double roll moulding.
Date: ninth century.
References: RCAHMS 1994, 101.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
Publication Account (1964)
NO24SE 25.32 2872 4459
A2 Small equal armed cross with hollowed intersections of the arms. This could be part of a recumbent stone.
A3 Limb of a cross with panel of ornamented background.
A4 Plaster cast of cup-marked base of No.2
MOPBW (S Cruden) 1964.
Note (1990)
NO24SE 25.32 2872 4459
A fragment of a cross-slab (0.37m by 0.2m and 0.07m thick) with the arm of a cross-potent and an incomplete recessed panel, both decorated with spiral ornament and carved in relief.
Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990.
