Grantown Description of stone
Event ID 1036944
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036944
Grantown, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.22m, W 0.56m, D 0.06m
Stone type: mica schist
Place of discovery: NJ 0452 3012
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB.10).
Evidence for discovery: found in the early 1860s in digging into a small knoll.
Present condition: good.
Description
This slab is incised with a fine study of a stag with scroll joints walking towards the right, over a divided rectangle with a rough circle at the top right and bottom left corners.
Date: seventh century
References: ECMS pt 3, 26-7; Fraser 2008, no 93.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
