St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum

St Vigeans Museum

St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum, located in the Angus village of St Vigeans, houses an outstanding collection of Pictish carved stones. St Vigeans, close to Arbroath, was the centre of a royal estate in the Early Middle Ages, and was of religious importance as a monastery founded in the 8th century. The present-day St Vigeans Church was built in the 12th century, on a 40-foot (12 m) mound.

The museum displays 38 carved stones which formerly stood upon the old church mound. Among the stones on display is the 9th-century Drosten Stone, a flat rectangular slab with a cross carved on one side and Pictish symbols on the other, and also bearing a Pictish inscription in Latin script.^[1] The museum is managed by Historic Scotland and is housed in two adjoining sandstone cottages close to the church. The 19th-century cottages are a category B listed building.^[2]

References[]

^ Clancy, Thomas Owen (1993), "The Drosten Stone: a new reading" (PDF), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 123: 345–353, retrieved 7 March 2013
^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Nos. 2-4, Kirkstyle, St. Vigeans (Category B Listed Building) (LB4775)". Retrieved 25 March 2019.

External links[]

Historic Environment Scotland: Visitor guide

Coordinates: 56°34′37″N 2°35′25″W / 56.5770°N 2.5904°W / 56.5770; -2.5904

[1] Clancy, Thomas Owen (1993), "The Drosten Stone: a new reading" (PDF), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 123: 345–353, retrieved 7 March 2013

[2] Historic Environment Scotland. "Nos. 2-4, Kirkstyle, St. Vigeans (Category B Listed Building) (LB4775)". Retrieved 25 March 2019.

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hide v Pictish sculptured stones
Caithness	Ackergill Birkle HIll Crosskirk Latheron Sandside Skinnet Ulbster Watenan
Ross	Ardjachie Stone Dingwall Stone Edderton Cross Slab Clach Chairidh Gairloch Stone Hilton of Cadboll Stone Nigg Stone Poolewe Stone Portmahomack sculpture fragments Rosemarkie Stone Rosemarkie sculpture fragments Rosskeen Stone Shandwick Stone Strathpeffer Stone
Badenoch and Strathspey	Advie Stone Ballintomb Stone Congash Stones Dunachton Stone Findlarig Stone Grantown Stone Inverallan Stone Lynchurn Stone
Moray	Birnie Symbol Stone Burghead Bulls Burghead (fragment) stone Dandaleith stone Drainie Carved Stones Easterton of Roseisle stone Elgin Pillar Inveravon Church stones (4) Rodney's Stone Sculptor's Cave symbol wall carvings Sueno's Stone
Inverness	Balbair Stones Culaird Stone Dores Stone Drumbuie Stone Garbeg Stone Invereen Stone Kingsmills Stone Knocknagael Stone Lochardill Stone Torgorm Stone
Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire	Ardlair Stone Aquhollie Stone Brandsbutt Stone Broomend of Crichie stone Cairnton stone Dunnicaer stones Dyce stones Fordoun Stone Fyvie Stones Kintore stones Logie Elphinstone Stones Maiden Stone Migvie Stone Monymusk Stone Nether Corskie Stone Newbigging, Leslie Stone Newton Stone Picardy Stone Rhynie Stones Tillytarmont Stones
Angus	Aberlemno Sculptured Stones Balluderon Stone Camus Cross Drosten Stone Dunnichen Stone Eassie Stone Glamis Manse Stone Hunter's Hill Stone Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones Monifieth Sculptured Stones St Orland's Stone St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Strathmartine Castle Stone Woodwrae Stone
Perth and Kinross	Bullion Stone Dupplin Cross Meigle standing stones
Fife	Abdie stone Scoonie Stone
Orkney	Brough of Birsay Greens Knowe of Burrian
Shetland	Breck of Hillwell Cunningsburgh