TY - JOUR
T1 - An overlooked gem of Pictish art
T2 - The cross-slab fragment from St Ringan’s Cairn in Aberdeenshire
AU - Ritchie, Anna
AU - Thickpenny, Cynthia
N1 - Funding Information:
Without the inspiration of John Borland’s careful drawings, this paper would never have been written, and I am grateful to him both for the drawings, which he has kindly prepared for publication in this paper, and for discussing the stones with me. Very special thanks go to Isabel and George Henderson for their interest and for reading and commenting on a draft of this paper (any remaining errors are mine), and to Cynthia Thickpenny for sharing her thoughts about the key pattern on St Ringan’s 1. I should like to thank my two anonymous reviewers for their generous insights and helpful comments. I am grateful to Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special Collections in the University of Aberdeen, for his help in facilitating visits to see the stones, and to Abeer Eladany for her kind help during both visits. I should also like to thank Adrián Maldonado for his kindness in showing me the fragment from Murroes in the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS), and Andrew Heald and Martin Cook of AOC Archaeology, Edinburgh, for their help in producing the map for . The map was drawn by Laura O’Connor of AOC Archaeology, and the photographs of St Ringan’s 1 used in and are the work of Kim Downie of Museums and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen, and I am very grateful to them both. The analysis of the St Ringan’s key pattern is built upon Thickpenny's 2014-2019 doctoral research, which was funded by a University of Glasgow College of Arts PhD Scholarship, and additionally supported by a University of Glasgow College of Arts Research Support Award, the Society for Medieval Archaeology's Eric Fletcher Fund, and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s Gunning Jubilee Gift.
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PY - 2021/12/17
Y1 - 2021/12/17
N2 - A little-known fragment of cross-slab from St Ringan’s Cairn in the Grampian Mountains of Aberdeenshire (Scotland) is identified as a significant example of Pictish sculptural art of the late 8th or early 9th centuries. It was created by a skilled stone-carver with an exceptional sense of design, probably based in a monastery in southern Aberdeenshire or Angus, and its location marked an important route through the mountains between northern and southern Pictland.
AB - A little-known fragment of cross-slab from St Ringan’s Cairn in the Grampian Mountains of Aberdeenshire (Scotland) is identified as a significant example of Pictish sculptural art of the late 8th or early 9th centuries. It was created by a skilled stone-carver with an exceptional sense of design, probably based in a monastery in southern Aberdeenshire or Angus, and its location marked an important route through the mountains between northern and southern Pictland.
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U2 - 10.1080/00766097.2021.1997204
DO - 10.1080/00766097.2021.1997204
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121511160
SN - 0076-6097
VL - 65
SP - 269
EP - 285
JO - Medieval Archaeology
JF - Medieval Archaeology
IS - 2
ER -