Rhynie Description of stone
Event ID 1022141
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Rhynie 8, Barflat, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.43m, W 0.39m, D 0.16m
Stone type: pink granite
Place of discovery: NJ c 497262
Present location: in a shelter at Rhynie Kirkyard.
Evidence for discovery: found after ploughing in 1978 in a field to the south of the old kirkyard at Rhynie.
Present condition: broken and incomplete, the slab has also been trimmed.
Description
There are three symbols incised by pecking on one broad face of this slab. At the top is the Pictish beast facing right, and below is the top part of an S-shaped figure and a single-sided comb. Below the comb is an arc which may be the top of a mirror but, if so, it would have overlain the S-shaped symbol. The carving of the arc uses a broader groove than the symbols and it may be a later addition.
Date: seventh century.
References: Shepherd & Shepherd 1978; Fraser 2008, no 43.8.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
