Craigmyle Description of stone

Event ID 1018450

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Craigmyle, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 2.29m, W1.37m, D 0.61m

Stone type: granite

Place of discovery: NJ 6401 0234

Present location: in situ on a hill slope.

Evidence for discovery: recorded as a symbol stone in the late nineteenth century.

Present condition: very weathered and the symbols are very faint.

Description

A massive granite boulder, this bears two incised symbols, a notched rectangle above a serpent.

Date: seventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 159-60; Fraser 2008, no 12.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017