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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 690466
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690466
NO54NW 3 516 496.
(NO 5082 4883) Standing Stone (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A Class I symbol stone: a rough sandstone pillar, 4'8" high, 2'3" wide and 1' thick, sculptured on one face with incised symbols which include the 'flower', double-disc, Z-rod, 'mirror', and 'comb'. On each face of the stone there are grooves and holes which do not seem to have formed part of the original design.
The stone was ploughed up in 1811 in a field named 'Chashel' or 'Castle' Park on the terrace N of the site of 'Nechtansmere' and on the farm of East Mains of Dunnichen at a spot now occupied by a quarry. Immediately below the stone, a "stone coffin" containing bones was found (Jervise 1858).
The symbol stone was removed first to a site at Kirkton, near the church, then to its present position in the garden of Dunnichen House.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; A Jervise 1859; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; A J Warden 1880-5.
