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Inverurie Description of stone
Event ID 1021987
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021987
Inverurie 2, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.75m, W 0.62m, D 0.28m
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: trimmed.
Description
Part only of a symbol stone, this fragment is incised with two symbols: the disc and rectangle, and the arch, both with internal decoration.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS 169; RCAHMS 2007, 123; Fraser 2008, no 26.2.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
