Archaeology Notes

Event ID 681047

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO03NE 6 c.093 392.

See also NO03NE 1.

(Area: NO 093 392) A Pictish symbol stone was discovered in 1886 while ploughing a field belonging to Gellyburn Farina Works, Murthly. (Farina Works (O G S Crawford, 12 October 1939) situated at NO 0947 3928).

The stone was found just below the surface, lying E-W, with a similar but unsculptured slab to the S of it, closely adjoining. Both slabs rested on stones set on edge, but nothing of importance was found in the enclosed space. The stone is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS: 1B101).

The site is traditionally that of a chapel, but there is no trace of any buildings or any information regarding it. (See also NO03NE 1 for another stone found in this area in 1949).

A Hutcheson 1886; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1887

Enquiries at Murthly Estate Office failed to provide any further information on the stone or the chapel.

Visited by OS (RD) 14 March 1969.