Drumbuie Description of stone
Event ID 1017589
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017589
Drumbuie 1, Inverness-shire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.76m, W 0.76m, D 0.06m
Stone type: brown sandstone
Place of discovery: NH c 517 302
Present location: National Museums Scotland (X.IB 287)
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in the 1860s around the site of an old grain kiln, along with Drumbuie 2. Both were covering a cist-like structure built of upright stones, which is likely to have been an earlier corn-drying kiln. They were taken to Balmacaan House until they were acquired by NMAS in 1955 and taken to Edinburgh.
Present condition: the edges of the slab are broken and irregular, but the carving is in reasonable condition, apart from damage by flaking to the left-hand disc.
Description
Incised on this slab are a plain serpent and Z-rod symbol above a double disc symbol.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 99-100.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
