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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73031
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
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.
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.