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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Eassie Stone Alternative Name: Eassie Old Church, Eassie Old Parish Church, Eassi
Country: Scotland County: Angus Type: Class II Pictish Symbol Stone
Nearest Town: Forfar  Nearest Village: Glamis
Map Ref: NO35264745
Latitude: 56.614427N  Longitude: 3.056433W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Eassie Stone
Eassie Stone submitted by C_Michael_Hogan : Eassie Church in ruin with part of the old graveyard. @ C. Michael Hogan (Vote or comment on this photo)
Class II Pictish Cross Slab in Angus

The Eassie Stone is a well preserved intricately Pictish symbol stone cross slab located in the ruined Eassie Old Parish Church in Angus, Scotland. The site is located near a minor road southwest of Glamis within the Parish of Angus and Nevay. The Eassie Stone is preserved within a plexiglass enclosure for weatherproofing, since the ruined stone church is roofless. The area surrounding the church is an old graveyard, which lends an appropriately somber and atmospheric effect to visiting the Eassie Stone. The Eassie Stone was found in a nearby creek bed and moved to the Eassie Church about 1850 for conservation. This content is based upon analysis of the extant literature on the site and my visits to the Eassie Stone in 2005 and 2006.

INTERPRETATION. The Eassie Stone has been characterised (Stuart, 1856) archivally (RCAHMS, 1987) in earlier systematic analyses, with the first extant drawing deriving from the year 1832. The appearance of a tree branch in conjunction with the cross on the Eassie Stone is taken to represent the sacred manner that certain trees were held in regard by the Caledonians. (Wise, 1884) The appearance of sacrificial cattle on the Eassie Stone is common to other Pictish Stones after the instruction from Pope Gregory to Abbot Melletus in 601 AD; that instruction permitted the Picts to sacrifice cattle at their ancient pagan temple sites, only if the sites were sprinkled with holy water and consecrated to the true God. (Bede, 731). A procession of ecclesiastics is also evident on the stone, a theme being common to other carved stones of this era. (Hogan, 2005) A portion of the Eassie Stone has been likened (Leslie, 1866) to a crouching warrior image (Kells, ) in the Book of Kells, potentially connecting this site to events at Iona, where the Book of Kells may have been produced.

REFERENCES.
* J Stuart (1856) ‘'The Sculptured Stones of Scotland'‘, Vol. i
* RCAHMS (1987) Eassie Stone RCAHMS official archives
* Thomas Wise (1884) ‘'History of Paganism in Caledonia:'‘, Trübner & co.
* Anna Ritchie (1994) ‘'Perceptions of the Picts: from Eumenius to John Buchan'‘, Groam House Museum Trust, Rosemarkie,; 30 pp
* Bede (731) ‘'Ecclesiastical History of the English People'‘
* C, Michael Hogan (2005) ‘'History of Muchalls Castle'‘, Lumina Press, Aberdeen
* Forbes Leslie (1866) ‘' The Early Races of Scotland and Their Monuments'‘, Edmonston and Douglas
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Eassie Stone
Eassie Stone submitted by rldixon : Other side of stone behind perspex 26/06/2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Eassie Stone
Eassie Stone submitted by rldixon : Eassie stone behind perspex 26/6/2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Eassie Stone submitted by rldixon : Detail other side 26/6/2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Eassie Stone
Eassie Stone submitted by rldixon : Detail of stone. Best i could get 26/06/2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Eassie Stone submitted by rldixon : stone wirh protective perspex enclosure 26/6/2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Eassie Stone
Eassie Stone submitted by rldixon : information board 26/6/2007 if anyone cant read this and would like me to upload photos of it in sections that are easier to read just ask :)

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Eassie Stone submitted by C_Michael_Hogan : Eassie Stone top portion. (It is difficult to photograph the entire stone in-situ with a single frame due to its height; due to the constrained space geometry; and also because of the glare from the protective enclosure.)

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Eassie Stone submitted by SandyG : There is much of interest in this churchyard. View of the church housing the pictish stone from above and south west.

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Re: Eassie Stone by macd on Wednesday, 15 January 2020
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[Okay, thanks, up-dated. Admin.] Class II stone, not Class III? Canmore states it is Class II, and seems to be an early example at that, c late 7th-early 8th century.
However, it might be worth noting that the traditional classification of the 20th century is under review, and seems much more complex. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4F09B9C943A1C29F226591A20BEC5248/S0003598X18000686a.pdf/development_of_the_pictish_symbol_system_inscribing_identity_beyond_the_edges_of_empire.pdf
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Re: Eassie Stone by stuant63 on Monday, 22 July 2013
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A brilliant stone and a very lovely site.

This listing appears to be a duplicate of the entry described as 'Eassie - Class II Pictish Symbol Stone in Scotland in Angus'

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7157

There is only one symbol stone in the church at Eassie. It is rather difficult to see it properly due to the way it is enclosed in a protective case.
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Re: Eassie Stone by Anonymous on Saturday, 05 May 2012
My name is Ronald kerry Eassie and I live in Australia, on a farming/grazing property in northern NSW. I visited Eassie many years ago and was impressed with what I saw. I believe I may have relatives still living in the area, as most of my family came from Kirriemuir and elsewhere in Angus and Nevay.
Any information would be interesting, and appreciated.
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Re: Eassie Stone by Anonymous on Thursday, 03 March 2011
You say the first extant drawing is 1832, but I was reading Charles Cordiner's Remarkable Ruins and Romantic Prospects.. of 1788, and he claims he found the stone, and gives a depiction of it, recognisably the same stone. So there is earlier evidence.

Thanks for very useful pictures and text.

Alistair Mason
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Eassie Stone Street View by Andy B on Sunday, 28 March 2010
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View Larger Map (well you can see the church at least)
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    Re: Eassie Stone Street View by golux on Friday, 23 April 2010
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    Hey Andy if you're using Street View to show the outside of a building which contains a box with a megalith inside it, does that mean I can submit a Street View image of the British Museum and claim I am showing hundreds of rare megaliths? LoL

    BTW if you take your Street View image one click to the left you can actually see, through the rightmost window of the church, the sun glinting off the top of the plexiglass box enclosing the stone!
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      Re: Eassie Stone Street View by Andy B on Friday, 23 April 2010
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      Hello, we accept museums in their own category so the BM and any other museum you can spot the outside of will count. Outsides of churches don't generally count but your special pleading in this case sounds plausible, thanks.
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Re: Eassie Stone by Anonymous on Wednesday, 04 November 2009
The Wikipedia page you created says "An analysis of the inscriptions by C. Michael Hogan shows the stone postdates the year 601 AD". Woulld these be the inscriptions on the "Historic Scotland" descriptive plaque affixed to the church wall behind the stone?
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Re: Eassie Stone by Anonymous on Friday, 23 January 2009
Isn't this stone a class II Pictish monument, in that it has both Christian and pagan Pictish symbolism present? Its reverse side (ie. not its cross-face) has a paired grouping of pre-Christian symbols on it. These are a "z-rod and double disc", and a "pictish-beast or elephant".
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Re: Eassie Stone by Anonymous on Sunday, 07 October 2007
Thank you for this reminder of how wonderfully the pre- and post- Christian lives were interwoven! I had forgotten how much insight Bede gives about how we have all turned out...

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