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Logie Elphinstone Description of stone
Event ID 1022127
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022127
Logie Elphinston 3, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.07m above ground, W 0.71m, D 0.18m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 69 26
Present location: set upright in the grounds of Logie Elphinstone House, to the west of the house at NJ 7033 2588.
Evidence for discovery: this was one of four stones found lying on the ground on the Moor of Carden to the west of Logie Elphinstone House in or prior to about 1821. At that time the moor was planted and three of the stones were built into the enclosing wall, while the fourth (which is not known certainly to have been carved) was used as a floor slab in a kiln and ‘split by the heat and destroyed’. The three symbol stones were subsequently removed from the wall and erected in the house grounds.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
One broad face of this slab is incised with two Pictish symbols, both poorly drawn: a Pictish beast above a crescent and V-rod.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 177; Fraser 2008, no 32.3.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
