Tullich carved stones Description of collection
Event ID 1085158
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Tullich carved stones, Aberdeenshire
There are 17 extant early medieval carved stones at St Nathalan’s Kirk, Tullich, including one Pictish symbol stone and 16 cross-incised stones. Another stone, the East Cross (Tullich 17) is recorded but has been destroyed. The carved stones are mostly made from local granite. Some were recorded in the 1870s, and others were found in the twentieth century, but the first full survey was carried out by RCAHMS in 2004-5. Excavations were undertaken in 2013 by Hilary and Charles Murray, who with Jane Geddes published a full account of this early medieval church site and its carved stones in 2015. Most of the stones are personal memorials. Radiocarbon dates from the graveyard fall in the mid-seventh to late ninth centuries, when there is likely to have been a monastery here.
Geddes, Murray & Murray 2015.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
