Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665142

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ14SE 1.00 18643 42881 (removed from 2026 4218)

NJ14SE 1.01 1862 4283 Pictish Symbol Stone

NJ14SE 1.02 1862 4283 Pictish Symbol Stone

NJ14SE 1.03 1862 4283 Rune-stone

NJ14SE 4 2026 4218 Knockando Old Parish Church (Ruin)

NJ14SE 1.04 18606 42884 Burial ground

NJ14SE 1.05 18601 42897 Watch house

(NJ 1862 4283) Church (NR) (Site of)

(NJ 1863 4282) Sculptured Stone (NAT)

OS 6" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

'A hollow feature among the graves' (Name Book 1870), or 'The Elchies Tomb' (H B Mackintosh 1924) in the churchyard is said to mark the site of a former parish church, presumably the fore- runner of the present church which was built in 1757.

The published sculptured stone is one of three which were removed from the grave-yard at Pulvrennan (NJ24SW 4) about 1820, and are now set into the wall at the entrance to the churchyard.

They consist of two symbol stones and one with Scandinavian runes of possibly the 9th or 10th centurys.

One symbol stone is an irregular quadrangular gneiss slab 4'9" x 1'10" wide, incised with the 'marigold' and two crescents and v-rods. The other is approximately rectangular 6'3" by 1' 6" incised with the serpent and mirror symbols.

J Stuart 1867; Name Book 1870; D Wilson 1883; J Allen and J Anderson 1903; H B Mackintosh 1924.