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Desk Based Assessment
Date 1958
Event ID 690735
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690735
NO64NW 12 6380 4733.
(NO 6380 4733) Symbol Stone found AD 1952 (NAT)
OS 6" map (1970)
(NO 6380 4733) (F T Wainwright, 28 May 1958). In 1952 a Class I symbol stone was discovered during ploughing about 300 yds N of Kinblethmont House.
It is a large sandstone boulder, now measuring 32" x 27" x 9", but one end has been broken off and is missing. It bears the incised cresent and V-rod, "elephant symbol", and the top of the mirror and comb. Excavation revealed a socket 10" deep cut in the rock, 1' below the present ground level. The missing portion of the stone was not found, and it is unlikely that this was the original site. The stone is preserved in Kinblethmont House.
F T Wainwright 1953
Information from OS Index Card c. 1958
Source: F T Wainwright 1953
