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Kintore Description of stone
Event ID 1022120
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022120
Kintore 3, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 1.07m, W 0.91m, D 0.23m
Stone type: red granite
Place of discovery: NJ 7939 1634
Present location: National Museums Scotland (X.IB.23)
Evidence for discovery: discovered when a motte was demolished to enable the construction of the railway in 1854, and purchased by NMAS in 1865.
Present condition: broken edges and worn.
Description
Two incised symbols survive at one end of this stone, but there are traces above them of another carving of which only a squared end may be seen. The two symbols are a double crescent and a tuning fork.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 171-4; Fraser 2008, no 30.2.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
