Keith Hall Description of stone
Event ID 1022116
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.36m (based on Stuart drawing), W 0.63m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 7799 2018
Present location: set upright in the grounds of Keith Hall at NJ 7880 2135.
Evidence for discovery: found in the River Don in 1953 and taken to Keith Hall.
Present condition: very weathered.
Description
This substantial boulder is incised with a double disc and Z-rod symbol, above a salmon facing right and below the fish there are comb and mirror symbols.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 37; ECMS pt 3, 170; Fraser 2008, no 27.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
