Earl's Bu 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1015595
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015595
Earl’s Bu 2, Orphir, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.90m +, W 0.40m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 3349 0445
Present location: built horizontally into the footings of a wall at the north-west corner of ‘the pend tower’ at the Earl’s Bu but below ground level and no longer visible.
Evidence for discovery: found built into the Earl’s Bu during excavations in 1939. It is likely to have been re-used for that purpose in the twelfth century.
Present condition:
Description
This slab, of which there is an extant photograph, is incised with a rectangle and a crescent and V-rod.
Date: seventh century.
References: Ritchie, J N G 2003, 122; Fraser 2008, no 169.2; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 10.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
