Description of stone

Date 18 May 2016

Event ID 1010518

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010518

Peterhead (Blackford), Perthshire, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.52m, girth 3.28m tapering to 2.11m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NN 9243 0980

Present location: in situ.

Evidence for discovery: recorded in the mid 1930s. The stone was tilting to one side and fell in 1990, but it was re-erected.

Present condition: weathered.

Description

This is a large natural boulder on which have been pecked two symbols, a goose above a rectangle with two internal transverse lines.

Date: seventh century.

References: Calder 1947; Fraser 2008, no 177.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016