Dunblane Cathedral’s cross-slab is a fully ornamented stone carved on both faces, now displayed at the west end of the North Aisle after being found beneath a staircase in the Lady Chapel/Chapter House. It stands just over 6 feet high and is usually dated to the 10th century. Although often described as a late Pictish sculpture, its date places it in a period of major cultural change. By around AD 900, older Pictish identity was giving way to the new Gaelic-speaking kingdom of Alba, so the stone may be better understood in that context rather than as purely “Pictish”. The carvings were described in detail by John Romilly Allen in 1881 and later reproduced in The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland (with Joseph Anderson). The rear face includes a dense decorative panel featuring paired beasts, spirals, key-patterns, raised bosses, a small cross, a horseman with spear and hound, a circular disc with cruciform design, and a standing man with staff.