Rhynie Description of stone
Event ID 1022139
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022139
Rhynie 6, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H over 0.84m, W 0.43m, D 0.25m
Stone type: red granite
Place of discovery: NJ 4992 2649
Present location: in a wooden shelter in the kirkyard car-park.
Evidence for discovery: found re-used in the foundations of the old church during demolition in 1878.
Present condition: weathered and the upper part of the slab is missing.
Description
Three symbols are incised on one broad face: the double disc and Z-rod, of which only the lower part of one disc and a terminal survive, above a crescent and V-rod, above a mirror with double-disc shaped handle.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 183-4, no 6; Fraser 2008, no 43.6.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
