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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Meigle
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project (22 May 2019)

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.

Archaeology Notes

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

Activities

Publication Account (1964)

Part of a serpent.

S Cruden 1964.

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.

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