Description of stone
Event ID 1010241
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010241
Abernethy 1 (?St Bridget), Perthshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.84m, W 0.56m, D
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NO 1899 1639
Present location: set on a plinth against Abernethy round tower, next to the gate into the graveyard.
Evidence for discovery: discovered in the foundations of a house in the burgh in the nineteenth century and built into another house before the end of the century, before being set against the east side of the round tower sometime in the twentieth century.
Present condition: carving in good condition.
Description
The stone was trimmed for re-use in such a way that most of four symbols have survived (the reverse of the slab is hidden). It is incised with the tuning fork symbol, flanked by a hafted hammer and an anvil, and below there is the upper left part of a crescent and V-rod with an internal double-spiral design.
Date: seventh century.
References: Butler 1897, 229-30, pl 1; ECMS pt 3, 282; Proudfoot 1997, 48; Fraser 2008, no 175.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016.
