St Orland's Stone

St Orland's Stone

St Orland's Stone (otherwise known as the Cossans stone or the Cossins stone) is a Class II Pictish Cross-Slab at Cossans, near Kirriemuir and Forfar, Angus, Scotland

Location

The cross-slab stands in situ, approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south-west of the A926 road at its midpoint between Kirriemuir and Forfar (grid reference NO40085002) in the former parish of Glamis.^[1]

Description

The stone is a worked slab of Old Red Sandstone, 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) tall 0.7 metres (2 ft 4 in) wide and 0.25 metres (9.8 in) wide.^[2] The slab is carved on both faces in relief and, as it bears Pictish symbols, it falls into John Romilly Allen and Joseph Anderson's classification system as a class II stone.^[3]^[4]

The cross face bears a ringed Celtic cross decorated with interlaced knotwork and spiral designs. It is surrounded in the lower two quadrants by interlaced fantastic beasts. The border appears to have once borne knotwork designs, but is weathered and difficult to interpret.

The rear face is bears crescent and v-rod and double disc and z-rod Pictish symbols. Below this is what appears to be a hunting scene, with four horsemen accompanied by two hounds, below this is a boat loaded with passengers and a depiction of a fantastic beast facing or attacking a bull. A quadrangular section between the Pictish symbols and figural carving is missing, and appears to have been cut out or a previously inlaid section has been removed.^[5] The carving is bordered by interlaced knotwork.

At some point, the stone has been broken and has been repaired using iron staples, formerly on the faces of the stone, now on the edges, to reinforce it.

References

↑ "Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN 0-319-22980-7
↑ "Site record for Cossans, St Orland's Stone", Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Canmore database, retrieved November 30, 2010
↑ Allen, J. Romilly; Anderson, J. (1903), Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, 1, Balgavies, Angus: Pinkfoot Press (1993 facsimile), pp. 216–218
↑ Allen, J. Romilly (1890), "Preliminary list of sculptured stones older than A.D. 1100, with symbols and Celtic ornament, in Scotland" (PDF), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 24: 510–525, retrieved November 29, 2010
↑ Fraser, Iain (2008), The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland, Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, pp. 62–63

Pictish sculptured stones

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Fife	Abdie stone

Coordinates: 56°38′18″N 2°58′43″W / 56.6382°N 2.9785°W / 56.6382; -2.9785

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