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Arbroath, Inchcape Park

Cross Slab (Early Medieval)(Possible)

Site Name Arbroath, Inchcape Park

Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)(Possible)

Alternative Name(s) Arbroath Harbour

Canmore ID 211931

Site Number NO64SW 298

NGR NO 639 402

NGR Description NO c. 639 402

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Arbroath Harbour (Inchcape Park), Angus, carved fragment

Measurements: H 0.75m, W 0.35m, D 0.16m (taken from stone)

Stone type: Old Red Sandstone

Place of discovery: NO 639402

Present location: Meffan Museum, Forfar.

Evidence for discovery: found on the foreshore in 1989 and displayed initially in the Signal Tower Museum, Arbroath.

Present condition: broken and worn.

Description

This fragment bears an incised rectangle symbol placed centrally across the width of the stone. RCAHMS reconstructs it as part of a cross-slab, but it may have been a symbol stone. Whatever its function, the symbol is unusually large.

Date range: seventh or eighth century.

Primary references: DES 2001, 15; RCAHMS 2003; Fraser 2008, no 53.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

Activities

Artefact Recovery (2001)

NO64SW 298 c. 639 402

For Arbroath Harbour (centred NO 6418 4044), see NO64SW 28.00.

NO 639 402 Carved piece of red sandstone, c 15th-16th century, with pattern of geometric design around a circle within a square. It may be a fragment from a cross-slab; 780 x 370 x 160mm. Found at a sewage pumping station on the foreshore at Arbroath. Museum Accession No. A.1989.268.

Sponsor: Angus Museums.

R Benvie 2001d.

Field Visit (11 January 2005)

This fragment has been reinterpreted as early medieval in date, and the geometric design as a possible Pictish rectangle symbol.

Information from RCAHMS (IFr), 11 January 2005.

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