Rhynie Description of stone
Event ID 1022136
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022136
Rhynie 3, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H c 1.35m, W 0.58m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 4985 2702
Present location: beside the gate at the north end of the square.
Evidence for discovery: found during roadworks around 1836 near the Plough Inn at Rhynie and placed near Howies Inn. In 1864 it was taken to the market square.
Present condition: very weathered.
Description
One broad face bears traces of the incised figure of a man with a small square shield and a spear with a knobbed terminal above two overlapping double arcs.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 182, no 3; Fraser 2008, no 43.3.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
