Pictish Sculptured Cross

The Pictish Cross slab lay on the floor of the west passage for about fifty years and this probably accounts for its sad disfigurement. It is now on display as you enter the church.

 

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In the centre is a cross of Celtic design, on the horizontal arms of which rests a hood or "Glory" ornamented with a Greek key design.

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The Cross head, in four arms of equal size, is ornamented with Celtic interlaces, but the lower limb is continued downwards in a narrow shaft, and appears to be supported on the shoulders of a nude human figure with upraised arms.

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Below the figure is a recessed panel of later date, bearing a shield with a chevron in relief.

 

 

In each of the upper corners of the stone is a small serpent and, between the hood and the intersection, a fish like creature.

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Below the arms of the cross are, on the dexter side, six figures, one below the other, Uncertain, a lamb, an ass, a bird perched on the back of another animal and a winged animal (dragon).

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On the sinister side, four figures, a woman seated on a high backed chair with a child on her knee, a horse and rider, a cow with a bell on the neck, and a large animal resembling an elephant.