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Tullich 1 Description of stone

Event ID 1025212

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1025212

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

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