Flemington Farm Description of stone

Event ID 1031048

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Aberlemno, Flemington Farm, Angus, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.50m, W 0.53m, D 0.30m

Stone type: Old Red Sandstone

Place of discovery: NO 524 556

Present location: McManus Galleries, Dundee.

Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1962

Present condition: weathered.

Description

This slab is incised with a horseshoe or arch symbol over a Pictish beast symbol.

Date range: seventh century.

Primary references: DES 1962, 1; Fraser 2008, no 52.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.