Tillytarmont Description of stone

Event ID 1110888

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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North Redhill, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragment

Measurements: H c 0.81m, W 0.58m, D 0.26m

Stone type: whinstone

Place of discovery: NJ c 560 457

Present location: set upright in the grounds of Whitestones House, Moray.

Evidence for discovery: found built into a dyke sometime before 1884.

Present condition: weathered.

Description

This fragment is incised with part of a notched rectangle and possibly another rectangle.

Date: seventh century

References: ECMS pt 3, 154-5; Fraser 2008, no 162.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018