Coynach Description of stone
Event ID 1022440
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Coynach Hill, Aberdeenshire, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.33m, W 0.32m, D 0.12m
Stone type: metamorphic
Place of discovery: NJ 4435 0591
Present location: in the garden of Tillypronie House.
Evidence for discovery: found before 1978 in a field wall.
Present condition: all the edges are broken and there is plough damage, but the carving is clear.
Description
This fragment belongs to a substantial slab, probably a cross-slab. Incised on one broad face are traces of two human figures, walking to the left and wearing tunics to just below the knee.
Date: eighth century.
References:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
