Nether Corskie Description of stone
Event ID 1022131
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Nether Corskie, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NJ 7482 09598
Present location: in situ on the slope north of the Corskie Burn.
Evidence for discovery: the symbols were first recognised in 1913 on one of a pair of standing stones.
Present condition: very weathered.
Description
The symbols are incised approximately midway on the larger of the two stones, perhaps in relation to the pre-existing cupmark. There is a disc and rectangle (or mirror-case) and to its right and set slightly lower a mirror with a double-ball handle and a single-sided comb with an ornately shaped back.
Date: seventh century.
References: RCAHMS 2007, 119.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
