Tillytarmont Description of stone
Event ID 1022489
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022489
Tillytarmont 1, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.12m, W 0.48m wide
Stone type: red granite
Place of discovery: NJ
Present location: in the Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen (ABdua.39394).
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing shortly before 1867 on a promontory at the confluence of the Isla and Deveron rivers, and built into the west wall of an outhouse at North Tillytarmont farm.
Present condition: apart from flaking at the top right, the stone is in good condition.
Description
One broad face of this tapering slab is incised with a goose facing right, above a mirror with a double-ball handle and a circular disc and rectangle (or ‘mirror-case’) with an inner small circle in the disc. Both the mirror and the disc and rectangle have double outlines.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 185-6; Fraser 2008, no 46.1.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
