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Delnadamph Description of stone
Event ID 1018453
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018453
Delnadamph Lodge, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.31m, W 0.43m, D 0.26m
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NJ 2250 0873
Present location: in the offices of Delnadamph Estate.
Evidence for discovery: found built into the wall of an extension to the Lodge when it was demolished around 1969.
Present condition: trimmed.
Description
This stone, which has been trimmed for re-use, bears the pecked outline of a bird in profile facing left. Its feet have been trimmed away, but it appears to have been standing still. The beak is pointed, the eye is a simple dot and the left-hand wing is indicated in repose by fine lines. It may represent a goose.
Date: seventh century.
References: Shepherd 2003; Fraser 2008, no 15.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
