Description of stone
Date 11 May 2016
Event ID 1010284
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010284
Collace, Perthshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.61m, W 0.41m, D 0.08m
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 212328
Present location: Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1948 and reused as a paving stone until 1962 when it was taken to the museum.
Present condition: broken but carving good.
Description
The carving on this slab is in particularly fine incision. At the top is the lower part of a tuning fork symbol, infilled with leaf-shaped ornament, above a Pictish beast, below which is a single-sided comb and a mirror of which the lower part of the handle is missing.
Date: seventh century.
References: Small 1962; Fraser 2008, no 180.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
