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Tillytarmont Description of stone
Event ID 1022493
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022493
Tillytarmont 5, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.45m, W 0.60m
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NJ 5331 4716
Present location: in the Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen (ABdua.39614).
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1974 in the same field as nos 1-4 on a promontory at the confluence of the Isla and Deveron rivers, North Tillytarmont Farm, and taken initially to a garden at Whitehills where it formed part of a revetment. It was found ‘above a stone spread adjacent to a square cairn’, which implies that all five stones may have been associated in some way with a cemetery of Pictish platform cairns.
Present condition: the carving is worn.
Description
The slab has a rounded top and is incised on one broad face with a serpent and Z-rod above an arch (or horseshoe) and a mirror. The serpent’s scales are depicted, and the arch is filled with running spirals.
Date: seventh century.
References: Fraser 2008, no 46.5.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
