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Kintore Description of stone
Event ID 1022118
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022118
Kintore 1, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.29m (based on Stuart’s drawing), W 0.61m, D 0.25m
Stone type: grey granite
Place of discovery: NJ 7930 1628
Present location: close to the south gate to the kirkyard at Kintore.
Evidence for discovery: found below ground level in the kirkyard, placed flat over a grave, and subsequently erected in a new stone base on the south side of the church in 1854.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
A substantial slab, this is incised with Pictish symbols on both broad faces. On one side a salmon facing right above a triple disc, and on the other a crescent and V-rod with arcs and dots within the crescent above a Pictish beast facing right.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 109; ECMS pt 3, 171-2; Fraser 2008, no 29.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
