Description of stone
Event ID 1010506
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010506
Keillor, Perthshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.98m, W 0.83m
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NO 2733 3976
Present location: in situ on the north slope of Keillor Hill.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by Skene in 1832 standing on a mound. By the late 1840s the upper part had fallen (Chalmers 1848), and it was re-erected sometime between 1848 and 1856 clamped together in a stone base (Stuart 1856).
Present condition: very worn.
Description
This pillar-like stone bears three symbols: a wolf at the top above a double disc and Z-rod, and a mirror below.
Date: seventh century.
References: Skene 1832, 21; Chalmers 1848, pl 20; Stuart 1856, 34; Fraser 2008, no 186.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
