Archaeology Notes

Event ID 823096

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ72SE 11.00 centred 78043 20611

(NJ 7800 2064) Sculptured Stones (NR) found.

OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1928)

NJ72SE 11.01 NJ 7802 2062 Pictish Symbol Stone (Inverurie no. 1)

NJ72SE 11.02 NJ 7802 2062 Pictish Symbol Stone (Inverurie no. 2)

NJ72SE 11.03 NJ 7802 2062 Pictish Symbol Stone (Inverurie no. 3)

NJ72SE 11.04 NJ 7802 2062 Pictish Symbol Stone (Inverurie no. 4)

NJ72SE 11.05 NJ 7802 2062 Stone: Cross-incised

NJ72SE 11.06 NJ 7802 2062 Stone: Cross-incised

For Bass of Inverurie (NJ 7809 2059), Old Inverurie Churchyard (NJ 7800 2064) and Inverurie Cemetery (centred NJ 7815 2055), see NJ72SE 13, NJ72SE 15, NJ72SE 138 respectively.

There are four symbol stones lying in the church-yard at Inverurie. They were taken out of the church-yard walls, which were built from the materials of the old church (NJ72SE 15). They should be placed under cover to 'prevent their further disintegartion by the weather'. (For descriptions, see under entries for individual stones).

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

In Inverurie churchyard there are four sculptured stones and two small cross-marked stones. Both the latter stones are circular with a triangular foot for fixing into the ground; both bear an incised cross on each face. The triangular foot has been broken off the smaller stone which measures 10 1/2 by 9 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches thick; the larger measures 16 1/2 by 12 by 5 inches thick.

J Ritchie 1911.