Inchbraoch, Braoch Road
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Inchbraoch, Braoch Road
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Inchbraoch No.3
Canmore ID 242952
Site Number NO75NW 2.03
NGR NO 7093 5675
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Montrose
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Inchbrayock 3 (St Brioc), Angus, probable Pictish cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.34m, W 0.31m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 7093 5675
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found in Inchbrayock graveyard in 1884 during gravedigging and taken to Craig Manse. Lost since 1908.
Present condition:
Description
From the photograph in ECMS this appears to be the basal part of a small slightly tapering slab. There was no carving on the back of the slab, which suggests that it may have split in two, thus losing the cross-face, but ECMS does not give its surviving thickness. The fragment had a plain flatband edge-moulding and was carved in relief with a hunting scene: two horse-riders, two deer and two hounds.
Date range: ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 255; RCAHMS 2003.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NO75NW 2.3 7093 5675
No. 3 This was found in the vicinity of St Braoch's Church (NO75NW 2) along with a Pictish symbol stone Class 2 (NO75NW 2.1) and cross-slab (NO75NW 2.2).
Inchbrayock 3 is now lost. This was found over the period 1857-1903 and was preserved at Craig Manse (NO 704 558) around 1903.
RCAHMS 1978; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903
