Rothiebrisbane Description of stone
Event ID 1022142
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022142
Rothiebrisbane, Tocherford, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H over 0.71m, W 0.53m, D 0.3m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 6981 3305
Present location: built into the east gable of Fyvie church.
Evidence for discovery: found re-used as a covering slab over a drain across the road from Rayne to Auchterless, about 5km west of Rothiebrisbane, and taken to the garden of Rothiebrisbane House. The OS Name Book (1867) records that it once stood in the centre of the stone circle at Tocherford.
Present condition: good.
Description
The slab is incised with an arch above an irregular circle containing three small circles.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 184-5; Fraser 2008, no 44.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
