Publication Account

Date 1996

Event ID 1016486

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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The earlier of the two Pictish stones is the slab incised with a large beast which has a fine plume and muscles suggested by scrolls. Below the beast is a bold double disc and Z-rod, with simple infilling. The other slab bears a large, knot-filled cross with hollowed angles and scroll ends to the arms, all carved in low relief. Symbols flank the cross, as at Migvie (no. 60). These are a crescent and V-rod, a disc and rectangle, a triple disc (or cauldron) and a double disc and Z-rod. Although all the symbols have ornate infilling, their positioning on the stone is subservient to the basic Christian statement. The four smaller stones in the recess are early Medieval grave markers, some of which may be as early as the seventh century.

Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland’, (1996).