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Clatt 4 Description of stone
Event ID 1018447
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018447
Clatt 4, Hillhead of Clatt (Percylieu Stone), Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.22m, W 0.61m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 532 263
Present location: in the walled garden at Leith Hall (NJ 5399 2998).
Evidence for discovery: recorded in 1842 a few years after it was discovered. It was dug up from a depth of ‘about six feet’ near some cairns on the farm of Hillhead of Clatt, and re-used as a sill stone at Percylieu mill. It remained at Percylieu until the 1890s, when it was taken to Cransmill Farm. At some later date it was taken to Leith Hall.
Present condition: the slab was trimmed into a rectangle when it was re-used at the mill, and consequently most of the salmon and the left-hand edge of the arch are missing.
Description
This slab bears parts of two incised symbols: a salmon above an arch.
Date: seventh century.
References: New Statistical Account 12, 851-2; Stuart 1856, pl 5; ECMS pt 3, 181-2; Fraser 2008, no 41.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
