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Picardy Stone Description of stone
Event ID 1022006
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022006
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
