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Meigle
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Meigle
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Meigle Museum; Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 8
Canmore ID 30868
Site Number NO24SE 25.08
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30868
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO24SE 25.8 2872 4459.
A fragment of a small cross-shaft (0.23m long by 0.22m broad and 0.07m thick), found in 1889 lying outside the building that is now the Museum, bears a cross with hollow armpits and traces of key-pattern in the left and top arms. The back shows the heads of a pair of confronting animals with a foreleg in each other's mouth. The object above the animals, a ring with two horizontal bars joined to it and a short vertical bar midway along their length, may be an otherwise unknown symbol. Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990.
Publication Account (1964)
No. 8 Fragment of a small cross-slab with what might be a symbol or a stylised object. Below this are the heads of two facing beasts, their paws in each other's mouths.
S Cruden 1964.
