Tyrie Description of stone
Event ID 1022853
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022853
Tyrie (St Andrew), Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.12m, W 0.71m
Stone type: blue mica schist
Place of discovery: NJ c 930 631
Present location: built into an inside wall of the parish church at Tyrie.
Evidence for discovery: found in or just before 1800 in the foundations of the old parish church, the precise location of which is uncertain, but presumably within the kirkyard (the new church was built in 1800). It was placed first in the porch of the new church, removed in the 1890s when it was photographed, and subsequently built into an interior wall of the church.
Present condition: the photograph used in ECMS shows damage to the top right and base of the stone, and the incised lines are painted in black.
Description
One broad face of this slab is incised with two Pictish symbols: an eagle facing left and almost standing on the top of a notched rectangle with Z-rod.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 187-8; Fraser 2008, no 49.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
