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Inverurie Description of stone
Event ID 1021986
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021986
Inverurie 1 Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 1.67m, W 0.48m, D 0.23m
Stone type: red granite
Place of discovery: NJ 6099 3025
Present location: Inverurie churchyard.
Evidence for discovery: all four symbol stones were built into the walls of the medieval church, which was demolished in 1775. They were then built into the churchyard wall, whence they were removed and set up in a line in the churchyard in the nineteenth century.
Present condition: broken and damaged.
Description
This slab is incised with parts of four Pictish symbols, one above the other: from the top, a crescent and V-rod, a circular disc and rectangle (‘mirror-case’), a serpent with a straight rod, and a double disc and Z-rod
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 168-9; RCAHMS 2007, 123; Fraser 2008, no 26.1
Desk-based nformation compiled by A Ritchie 2017
