Dunnicaer 3 Description of stone
Event ID 1018457
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018457
Dunnicaer 3, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.23m, W 0.39m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 884 847
Present location: built into a garden wall at Banchory House (now Beannachar).
Evidence for discovery: one of a number of stones found in a rough wall on Dunnicaer in 1832 and thrown over the cliff into the sea. This stone was recovered from the shore in 1858 and was taken to Banchory House.
Present condition: good.
Description
This small rectangular slab is incised with a crescent and traces of a V-rod, with a superimposed triangle.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 15; ECMS pt 3, 200; Fraser 2008, no 18.3.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
