Migvie Pictish Symbol Stone

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Douglas Ledingham
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2022-03-14
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Info fro Canmore 288643: Migvie 1 (St Finan), Aberdeenshire, Pictish cross-slab Measurements: H 1.75m above ground, W 0.75m, D 0.33m NJ 4365 0682 Found during grave-digging in the kirkyard around 1861. Description This irregularly shaped slab is carved in a mixture of relief and incision. On face A there is a relief cross formed of fat median-incised interlace, with strap-and-buckle shaped projections at the junctions of the arms and at the corners of the upper arm. Two S-shaped figures spring from the foot of the shaft. Above the left arm is a double disc and Z-rod symbol, above the right arm a unique arch (or horseshoe) and V-rod, and below the left arm a pair of shears. Near the base of the cross-shaft on the right is a horseman facing the cross, and there is another horseman incised on face C, the horse showing the same gait and also facing left. 9th century.

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