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Fetterangus Description of stone
Event ID 1018462
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018462
Fetterangus, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.10m, W 0.76m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 9813 5056
Present location: fixed to the inner face of the kirkyard wall at Fetterangus, close to the entrance.
Evidence for discovery: found lying in the kirkyard by Gibb in 1876.
Present condition: very weathered and damaged at either end.
Description
This slab has been carved on at least two occasions. It is incised with a disc and rectangle (‘mirror case’) superimposed upon a disc with an inner circle, and the twin arcs of the earlier disc have been utilised as part of the internal decoration of the rectangle. Below the disc and rectangle is a triple disc with a bar, while above both is a curving line ending in a scroll.
Date: seventh century.
References: Gibb 1878, 196-7; ECMS pt 3, 164; Fraser 2008, no 20.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
