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| RecordAuthor |
Máirín Mac Carron |
| ISODate |
2002-06-21 |
| Date |
21 June 2002 |
| PictureCredit |
Jane Hawkes |
| County |
Fifeshire |
| Townland |
St Andrews |
| OSMapRef |
NO 515165 (351500, 716500) |
| Area |
Scotland |
| GeneralContext |
View of the end panel, on the left side, of the sarcophagus at St Andrews. |
| Location |
in the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral (now in the museum at United College). |
| GeneralContext |
Stone Type: Sandstone |
| Dimensions |
5'9'' long, 2'11'' wide, and 2'4'' high. |
| GeneralDescription |
The sarcophagus at St Andrews is in the shape of a rectangular box. |
| GeneralDescription |
This has a cross in the centre of the panel, within a rectangular frame all decorated with a continous piece of ornament. |
| GeneralDescription |
The background of the cross consists of four recessed panels, containing at the left hand upper corner, two small figures
of men sitting facing each other: at the right hand upper corner, four serpents with their tails forming a raised boss of
interlaced-work: at the left hand lower corner, two serpents with their tails forming a raised boss of interlaced work and
a triquetra knot: and at the right hand lower corner, a pair of seated figures, in a slightly different attitude to those
at the top left panel.
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| GeneralDescription |
On the narrow edge of the corner-post on the left there is circular interlaced-work. |
| GeneralDescription |
On the narrow edge of the corner-post on the right there is a vertical rwo of L-shaped sinkings on a background of interlaced
work.
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