Knockando Description of stone
Event ID 1084817
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084817
Knockando 3 (St Brendan?), Morayshire, rune-inscribed stone
Measurements: H c 1.90m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 1862 4283
Present location: built into the boundary wall of Knockando churchyard near the entrance, alongside the Pictish symbol stones Canmore 16043 and 16044.
Evidence for discovery: possibly brought from Pulvrenan burial ground along with the symbol stones prior to 1856.
Present condition: worn.
Description
A rectangular slab bears on one broad face four runes set vertically. The stone was re-used as a recumbent graveslab in the eighteenth century, when the name I A HAY and the date 1714 were added beneath the runes.
Date range: early medieval.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
