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St Vigeans

Carved Stone (Period Unassigned)

Site Name St Vigeans

Classification Carved Stone (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 35579

Site Number NO64SW 3.27

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 27 (St Vigianus), Angus, carved fragment

Measurements: H 0.12m, W 0.14m, D 0.8m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289

Present location: in St Vigeans Museum (HES).

Evidence for discovery: found during the 1870s restoration and placed in the tower. It was taken into St Vigeans Museum in 1960.

Present condition: the base of the rounded spiral is broken and the reverse face is damaged.

Description

Possibly a finial from an item of stone furniture, this fragment consists of a rounded spiral.

Date range: early medieval.

Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 280; Geddes 2017, no VIG027.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.

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Reference (1964)

NO64SW 3.27 6383 4294

No.27. Small semicircular fragment with a single spiral.

S Cruden 1964

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