St Vigeans
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name St Vigeans
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 35582
Site Number NO64SW 3.03
NGR NO 6383 4294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35582
- Council Angus
- Parish Arbroath And St Vigeans
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
St Vigeans 3 (St Vigianus), Angus, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.17m, W 0.20m, D 30mm
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 6384 4289
Present location: in St Vigeans Museum (HES).
Evidence for discovery: found during the 1872 restoration of the church and subsequently built into a wall of the church. It had been removed and placed in the porch by 1903, and it was taken into St Vigeans Museum in 1960.
Present condition: three edges are broken and face C has sheared off, but the carving on face A is in good condition.
Description
This fragment comes from the right-hand part of face A and is carved in high relief with the lower right portion of a double disc and Z-rod symbol. The disc contains a meander pattern.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 240; Fraser 2008, no 67.3; Geddes 2017, no VIG003.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Reference (1964)
NO64SW 3.03 6383 4294.
No.3. Part of a double disc and Z-rod. Removed from St Vigeans Church to museum, 1960 (NO 6383 4294).
S Cruden 1964
Reference (1997)
Six class II symbol stones.
St Vigeans 1 (The Drosten Stone) : on cross face decoration including an angel with animals and birds and inscription in Hiberno-Saxon script.On the reverse a complex hunting scene with underneath a double-disc and Z-rod over a crescent and mirror-and-comb.
St Vigeans 2 : cross shaft with a mirror on the left and serpent and Z-rod over an eagle on the right.
St Vigeans 3 : fragment with double-disc and Z-rod.
St Vigeans 4 : on the reverse is a standing figure with vertical double-disc on the right.
St Vigeans 5 : fragment with double-disc and Z-rod on the cross face.
St Vigeans 6 : double-disc and Z-rod on one face.
A Mack 1997