Meigle
Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Meigle
Classification Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Meigle Museum; Meigle Stones; Meigle No. 30
Canmore ID 30861
Site Number NO24SE 25.30
NGR NO 2872 4459
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30861
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Meigle 30, Perthshire, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.30m, W 0.27m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2872 4459
Present location: Meigle Museum.
Evidence for discovery: none.
Present condition: broken and head of animal missing.
Description
This small fragment is likely to have come from a cross-slab or an architectural panel. It is carved in relief with the tightly coiled tail of a creature with a thick body.
Date: ninth century.
References: RCAHMS 1994, 102.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
NO24SE 25.30 2872 4459.
Meigle No.30 is a fragment of sandstone, of irregular four-sided shape, 10 inches high by 7 inches wide by 3 1/2 inches thick, sculptured in relief on one face thus-
Front- Part of a spiral scroll and a serpent's head (?)
This stone has not been previously described or illustrated. This fragment is in Meigle Museum.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903
Note (1990)
NO24SE 25.30 2872 4459.
A fragment of sandstone (0.3m by 0.27m and 0.2m thick), shaped to form a building stone, bears a relief scroll or ram's horn as well as what may be the head of a serpent.
Information from RCAHMS (JNGR) 1990.