Picardy Stone Description of stone

Event ID 1022006

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Picardy Stone, Myreton Farm, Insch, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 2.00m, W 0.66m - 0.9m, D 0.45m

Stone type: black whinstone with quartz veins

Place of discovery: NJ 6099 3025

Present location: still in situ in field.

Evidence for discovery: recorded around 1850, standing on cairn 2.00m in diameter covering empty grave.

Present condition: good.

Description

An angular tapering stone, one broad face is incised with three symbols: double disc and Z-rod, serpent and Z-rod and mirror.

Date: seventh century.

References: Stuart 1856, 4; Fraser 2008, no 42.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017