Huntly Description of stone
Event ID 1021984
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021984
Huntly 1, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.00m, W 0.76m, D 0.45m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 5292 3999
Present location: in the market square at Huntly.
Evidence for discovery: this is one of two stones surviving of a former circle, the rest of which was removed in 1862. The symbol stone was first recorded by Stuart around 1850.
Present condition: very weathered with surface flaking.
Description
This irregularly shaped slab may once have been taller. Roughly pecked on one broad face is a plain arch. No trace survives of the double disc mentioned in ECMS, nor is it shown on the drawing there.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 166; Fraser 2008, no 24.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
