Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668194

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ63SW 3 60994 30259

(NJ 6099 3026) Picardy Stone (NR) (Sculptured)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A Class 1 Pictish symbol stone, known locally as the Picardy stone, is an erect pillar 6' 6" high (Allen and Anderson 1903) now under guardianship of the MoW. When the area around the stone was examined in 1856, it was found to stand on a cairn, 6ft in diameter and extending 3ft below ground surface. Some 3ft to the S of the stone, and 5ft below ground level, was an empty grave, oriented E-W, and 7ft in length. Among the stones at the top was 'the usual black mould', and some of the stones were marked by fire (Stuart 1856).

J Stuart 1856; Name Book 1866; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.

This Class I stone stands in a little enclosure close to a by-road between Netherton and Myreton farmhouses. It is incised with a couble disc and Z-rod, a serpent and Z-rod, and a mirror symbol.

R W Feachem 1963.