Archaeology Notes

Event ID 682488

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO11NW 10 1366 1933 removed from NN 9730 1813

(NN 9730 1813) Bore Stone (NR)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 1st ed., (1866)

(NO 1328 1932) Bore Stone (NAT)

OS 6"map, (1959)

The Borestone (J R Allen and J Anderson 1903) or Boar Stone (J Stuart 1856) of Gask which formerly stood in a field on the south side of the road from Gask House to Gask Church, is now on the south side of the carriage drive to Moncrieffe House (NO11NW 41.00). It is a mutilated upright cross-slab of red sandstone, 6ft 4ins high and sculptured on two faces. Holes are pierced right through the stone in the hollows between the arms of the cross. Some of the animals depicted resemble boars which may account for the name.

J Stuart 1856; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.

As described above. The precise original site of the stone was not ascertained.

Visited by OS (R D L) 9 June 1964.

The Boar Stone of Gask was moved to the grounds of Moncrieffe House when roadworks threatened it.

Re-surveyed at 1:2500 at NO 1366 1933

(See Gask, Bore stone NN91NE 26)

Information from OS Reviser 29 August 1980.

The Bore Stone of Gask, a Class II Pictish stone, stands on the lawn immediately to the S of the conservatory that has been built onto the W end of Moncrieffe House (NO11NW 41.00). The stone is heavily weathered and incomplete, having lost the upper portion of the cross-head. Each face bears a ring-cross carved in relief, with traces of panels of interlace on the shaft.

The stone is unusual in that the elliptical hollows between the arms of the crosses have been cut to penetrate through the slab. In addition, the cross on the S face has spiral volutes as terminals to its horizontal arms. On each face there are panels of men, animals and mythological beasts to either side of the shaft. The panel to the right of the shaft on the S face also incorporates a serpent-and-Z-rod, and flower symbols.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 9 December 1996.

Class II symbol stone with crosses on both faces .On the south face are animals and two mounted figures,above one of which is a serpent and Z-rod and below which is a flower.

A.Mack 1997.