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Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017308
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017308
This rough whinstone pillar, standing 1.98m high, bears three finely incised symbols and is unusual in being, apparently, still in its original location. The symbols are on the south face and consist of a well drawn double disc and Z-rod, the latter with ornate, flame-like, terminal over a tightly coiled serpent and Zrod with a simple mirror beneath. (There is no comb.) The essentially prehistoric, remote quality of the Pictish symbols can be gauged here.
An 'excavation' in 1856 found that the stone stood on a low cairn, 1.9m in diameter, which had an extended grave beneath its perimeter; this emphasises the association between symbol stones and burial and property rights.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Grampian’, (1986).
