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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

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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 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

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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

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