Kintore Description of stone
Event ID 1022121
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022121
Kintore 4, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.94m, W 0.46m
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NJ 790 162
Present location: Inverurie Museum (I 6905).
Evidence for discovery: found amongst ‘cleared topsoil’ in a garden in Henderson Crescent, Kintore, in 1974, and given to Inverurie Museum in or before 1984.
Present condition: the edges are all broken and the carving is worn.
Description
This is part of what was once a substantial stone, incised with at least three symbols. Close above a Pictish beast is a square symbol, while beneath the beast and to the right is an arc which was probably a mirror. The square has a semi-circular expansion at two opposing corners, lower left and upper right, each with two ‘armpits’ with central pellets. Within the square is a smaller square with similar corner motifs, but this time expanding inwards and set at the lower right and upper left corners.
Date: seventh century.
References: Fraser 2008, no 31.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
