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Object number2004.033

Titlecarved stone fragment also known as the Ravenscraig stone

DescriptionFragment of a much larger piece of sculpture, a cross-slab that would have been several feet tall. This unique stone, carved sometime between the 9th and 10th centuries, is the only inscribed stone of this period found in Aberdeenshire. It was discovered protruding from a derelict drystone wall at Inverugie, Aberdeenshire. The carving consists of two panels separated by an inscribed band. The upper panel shows, on the right, the lower edge of a garment, with two feet facing right resting on the inscribed band. The lower panel shows the head of a figure, with an interlaced animal to the left. The inscription on the band is very worn but may possibly be transcribed as: [..][i]DR[o] This might be a reference to St. Drostan, founder of the Celtic monastery at Deer in the sixth century, and may indicate that the cross-slab was one of the boundary stones of that monastery.

Production periodearly historic, 8th-9th century

Object namestone, carved, fragment of

Materialsandstone

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