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Deer Description of stone
Event ID 1018452
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018452
Deer Abbey, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone and cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.83m, W 0.76m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NJ 9685 4810
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: first recorded around 1850 standing close to Deer Abbey. Sometime later that century it was said to have been built into the foundations of a new lodge nearby.
Present condition:
Description
This was a slightly tapering slab incised on both broad faces. Face A bore two symbols on its narrower end, a rectangle above a crescent and V-rod. The stone was then turned upside down and re-used as a cross-slab, for face C bears an incised outline cross.
Date: seventh century and later.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 4; ECMS pt 3, 162; Fraser 2008, no 14.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
