Clatt 1 Description of stone
Event ID 1018443
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018443
Clatt 1, Knockespock House, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.76m, W 0.65m
Stone type: blue-grey granite
Place of discovery: NJ 5389 2600
Present location: at Knockespock House (NJ 5442 2408)
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1842, at which time it was built into the kirkyard wall at Clatt. Within a few years it had been removed and built into a nearby cottage, and when the cottage was demolished in 1890 it was taken to Knockespock House.
Present condition: considerable surface flaking has removed much of the right-hand side of the mirror and double disc and Z-rod, and the top is damaged.
Description
This rectilinear slab is incised with a triple disc symbol above a double disc and Z-rod set vertically, and alongside the latter on the right is a mirror symbol.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 5; ECMS pt 3, 157-8: Fraser 2008, no 10.1.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
