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Inverurie Description of stone
Event ID 1021989
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021989
Inverurie 4, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 1.25m, W 0.82m, D 0.31m
Stone type: pink 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: some weathering.
Description
This slab is incised with a trotting horse, facing right, with scroll joints and a long tail. The head has a pointed ear, circular eye and five hairs representing the mane.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 170; RCAHMS 2007, 123; Fraser 2008, no 26.4.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
