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Meigle

Carved Stone (Early Medieval) - (Medieval)

Site Name Meigle

Classification Carved Stone (Early Medieval) - (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Meigle Museum; Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 33

Canmore ID 73031

Site Number NO24SE 25.33

NGR NO 2874 4447

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 33, Perthshire, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.71m, W 0.41m, D 0.09m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NO 2872 4459

Present location: Meigle Museum.

Evidence for discovery: found loose in the churchyard in 1988 or 1989.

Present condition: broken but carving good.

Description

This fragment may have come from the upper part of a pointed slab. Within a sunken square on dace A is a ringed interlace knot carved in relief, with its pointed loops at each corner of the square creating a cruciform pattern (ECMS pattern 495). At the upper edge of the square is a more shallowly carved triangular area. Deeply carved on face C is part of a bar socket of unknown function and date.

Date: early medieval or later.

References: RCAHMS 1994, 101, F.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.

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Note (March 1990)

NO24SE 25.33 2874 4447.

In 1989, a further carved fragment (now in Meigle Museum) was found within Meigle burial-ground (NO24SE 33.01). It bears an open ring-knot in false relief within a square frame. The reverse of the slab is cut with a bar socket.

The carving may be Early Christian or later in date.

Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) March 1990.

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