Kirkton of Bourtie Description of stone
Event ID 1021995
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021995
Kirkton of Bourtie 1 (Bourtie Parish Church), Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.87m, W 0.30m
Stone type: blue whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 8045 2485
Present location: built into the south wall of the church beneath the eaves at the east end.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in the wall in the mid nineteenth century.
Present condition: broken and weathered.
Description
This slab is the right-hand portion of a symbol stone, incised with a crescent and V-rod above a double disc and Z-rod (of which two symbols only parts survive), and below them an intact mirror and part of a double-sided comb (the right-hand part of the comb has flaked off).
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 132; ECMS pt 3, 157; Fraser 2008, no 6.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
