Canmore Site 77190: EASTER BALLINDEAN - INCHTURE - CARVED STONE HEAD(S) (STONE)(MEDIEVAL)
Description
Site Name | EASTER BALLINDEAN |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NO22NE 38 |
Broad Class | UNASSIGNED (OBJECT) |
Site Type(s) | CARVED STONE HEAD(S) (STONE)(MEDIEVAL) |
NGR | NO 2660 2965 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 10m |
Local Authority | PERTH AND KINROSS |
Parish | INCHTURE |
Record created | 1994-01-12 |
Last updated | 2000-08-31 |
Archaeology Notes
NO22NE 38 2660 2965.
Two medieval carved stone heads of crowned kings were found by Walter Campbell of Ballindean House in a ploughed field in the 1960s.
One head was sold to a Glasgow dealer, the other has recently come to light. The surviving head probably decorated a right-hand door-jamb or archway, with the face turned in at an angle of 45 degrees from the plane of the jamb. The circular cross-section of the neck suggests that the head rested on a moulding 105mm in diameter protruding from the door-jamb. The head has been roughly removed from the original building, and half of the geometrically decorated crown has been lost. The king's wavy hair-style may suggest a 15th century date. No church or chapel is recorded on this site, but the heads may have been a pair salvaged from an important ecclesiastical building with royal connections in the vicinity, possibly Scone Abbey.
Donated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery. Acc No 1992.617.
M D King 1992.
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