Lynchurn Description of stone
Event ID 1036954
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Lynchurn, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H c 1.80m, W 0.46m, D 0.25m
Stone type: ‘slaty’
Place of discovery: NJ 953 206
Present location: in churchyard at Kincardine (unidentified).
Evidence for discovery: found in the early 1870s in a field, lying flat. It was damaged by trimming for use as a lintel before carving was noticed, and only one symbol remained. It was set up at the place where it was found, but in the 1880s it was taken to Kincardine and re-used as a new gravemarker by chipping off the early carving.
Present condition: defaced.
Description
This fragment bore most of an incised crescent and V-rod symbol.
Date: seventh century
References: Mitchell 1874, 688-9; ECMS pt 3, 105; Fraser 2008, no 95.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
