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St Vigeans

Cross (Period Unassigned)

Site Name St Vigeans

Classification Cross (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 35566

Site Number NO64SW 3.15

NGR NO 6383 4294

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

St Vigeans 15 (St Vigianus), Angus, cross-head fragment

Measurements: H 0.33m, W 0.36m, D 0.11m

Stone type: grey sandstone

Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289

Present location: in St Vigeans Museum (HES).

Evidence for discovery: found during the 1870s restoration and built into the interior west wall of the nave.

Present condition: broken across the lower arm and the top of the upper arm is damaged. The surface of the lower arm is missing from face A and that of the upper arm is missing from face C.

Description

This is the head of a solid-ringed or plate cross, with circular armpits and square terminals to the three surviving arms. The ring is plain, and the cross is outlined by a wide flat-band border. A double spiral at the centre of the cross-head is linked to panels of diagonal key pattern. Face C appears to have had interlace in the centre, linked to a panel in the left arm containing four triangular spirals.

Date range: ninth or tenth century.

Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 274; Geddes 2017, no VIG015.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.

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Reference (1964)

NO64SW 3.15 6384 4294

No.15. Free-standing cross with its expanded arms decorated with spiral and fretwork or key pattern: shaft restored.

S Cruden 1964

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