St Vigeans Church & Pictish Stones
Here are the photos of the church at St Vigeans and of some of the collection of Pictish stones in the nearby museum as briefly mentioned in an earlier post.
St Vigeans Church. Vigean is the Latinised form of Fechan. The name of the Dumfries-shire town of Ecclefechan (and also the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle) is probably an Anglicised form of it's older Gaelic name, meaning "the church of Fechan".
The Drosten Stone, as famous as Pictish stones get due to it being one of the few to possess an inscription that is not in Ogham, the old Gaelic alphabet. The inscription is located on the bottom of the stone's left flank as viewed in the above picture.
Note the two priest like figures standing sentinel at either side of the foot of the cross.
St Vigeans Church. Vigean is the Latinised form of Fechan. The name of the Dumfries-shire town of Ecclefechan (and also the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle) is probably an Anglicised form of it's older Gaelic name, meaning "the church of Fechan".~~~
The Drosten Stone, as famous as Pictish stones get due to it being one of the few to possess an inscription that is not in Ogham, the old Gaelic alphabet. The inscription is located on the bottom of the stone's left flank as viewed in the above picture.~~~
Note the two priest like figures standing sentinel at either side of the foot of the cross.~~~
The superb craftmanship evident in this carving gives the stone stag something of a presence. I find the representation of the antlers quite sublime.
The superb craftmanship evident in this carving gives the stone stag something of a presence. I find the representation of the antlers quite sublime.
posted by Inchbrakie at Saturday, February 25, 2006
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