 The so-called "Drosten Stone" features a much-analyzed Hiberno-Saxon inscription.The presence of a formerly important, but moribund or redundant, monastic establishment at St Vigeans may have led William I of Scots to found nearby the Tironensian monastery of Arbroath Abbey, the former monastery's lands being donated to the new foundation.St Vigeans Church  served as parish church to the inhabitants of Arbroath up to the Reformation.