Tullich 1 Description of stone
Event ID 1025212
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Tullich 1 (St Nathalan), Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.76m, W 0.49m, D 0.15m
Stone type: Andalusite staurolite schist
Place of discovery: NO 3905 9754
Present location: stored off-site for conservation; a new display shelter in the kirkyard is planned.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1866 re-used in the blocking of a doorway in the north wall of the church. It was removed and set in a railed enclosure against the north wall.
Present condition: trimmed along all four edges for secondary use, and the surface is weathered.
Description
This was a tall slab incised with three Pictish symbols: double disc and Z-rod above a Pictish beast, with a mirror below. The discs have an inner concentric circle and a central compass pit. The beast faces right, and the centrally placed mirror has an inner concentric circle and a double ball handle.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS, pt 3, 186-7; Michie 1910, 118, 150; Fraser 2008, no 47; Geddes, Murray & Murray 2015, 253, 265-6.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017