Edited sentence: The creature's head is similar to the head's of animals on Meigle 1 and Meigle 5.The ridge of the stone is carved with an elongated beast with its head at the higher end of the monument, the beast has the tail of a fish at the tapering end if the stone.The stone demonstrates stylistic affinities with early hogback stones from the Glasgow area.The stone tapers at one end, and the sides of the monument together with this tapering end are sculpted with concave-sided roof-tiles