Turriff Manse Description of stone
Event ID 1023350
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1023350
Turriff Manse, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.47m, W 0.24m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 7230 4991
Present location: built into a low wall just east of St Ninian’s Church at NJ 7234 5008.
Evidence for discovery: since it was first recognised in the 1870s in the garden wall of St Ninian’s manse in Turiff, this slab has been moved at least twice, once within the manse grounds in the twentieth century and in the early twenty-first century to St Ninian’s Church, to the north-east of the manse. It may have come originally from St Congan’s kirkyard to the south-west of the manse.
Present condition: severely trimmed and there is damage to the carved face.
Description
This fragment is a small part of an incised symbol stone. All that survives of its carving is part of the left-hand side of a crescent and V-rod.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 187; Fraser 2008, no 48.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
