Desk Based Assessment
Date 1964
Event ID 670263
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670263
NJ82SW 4 8045 2485
(NJ 8045 2485) Sculptured Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1928).
See also NJ82SW 5.00.
Not to be confused with incised stone (NJ82SW 5.01) built into wall-coping on S side of church.
This symbol stone is built into the south wall of Bourtie (Parish) Church (NJ82SW 5.00) near the east end, outside, just below the eaves of the roof. It is a slab of blue whinstone, of rectangular shape, 2 feet 4 inches long by 1 foot 2 inches wide, sculptured with incised lines on one face.
'It is accurately illustrated and described' by Stuart (1856).
J Stuart 1856; J Allen and J R Anderson 1903.
Information from OS.
