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Desk Based Assessment
Date 1973
Event ID 920188
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/920188
NJ72SW 1 70378 24714
(NJ 7037 2471) Maiden Stone (NR)
(Sculptured) (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A trench was lately made round the stone but no sepulchral remains were found and it was subsequently discovered that the stone had probably been removed a few paces westward from its first site when the adjoining road was made. The stone stands south of the road running out west of the Chapel of Garioch.
Name Book 1867.
The name 'Maiden Stone' is said to come from a daughter of the Laird of Balquhain who was killed here in a scuffle subsequent to her elopment.
C Rogers 1872.
A Class II symbol-bearing, upright cross slab of red granite, carved in relief and standing 10' (3.04m) high by 2'8" - 3' (0.81-0.91m) broad and 6" - 1" (152-304mm) thick. The front is divided into 5 parts, the back into 4 panels. Besides the cross the front bears a man between two fish-monsters and on the back are a centaur-like figure, rectangle and z-rod; elephant and 'mirror and comb' symbols. The sides have panels of interlacing.
One of the most beautiful stones to have survived in situ, it is not erected on a base, but the bottom is left rough and stuck in the ground.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; R W Feachem 1963
This beautiful pillar of red granite stands beside the by-road 1 mile NW of Chapel of Garioch. It is a Class II stone, carved in relief, showing at the front a man between fish monsters, an enriched cross and shaft, a panel with an enriched disc, and other ornamental details. The back has beasts and a centaur-like figure, a rectangle and Z-rod, an 'elephant' and a mirror and comb symbol. This sides have interlaced panels. This stone is one of the most beautiful to have survived in situ.
R W Feachem 1963.
Information from OS, c. 1973
