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Reference
Date 1903
Event ID 929816
Category Documentary Reference
Type Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929816
The symbol stone was discovered by the Rev. John Michie, minister of Dinnet, used as a lintel at the top of a window in the N. wall of the church, and has since been removed and placed within an iron railing against the N. wall of the church, together with several slabs bearing incised crosses and a massive old font.
It is a slab of blue slate, of nearly rectangular shape, 5 feet 9 inches long by 1 foot 9 inches wide by 5 inches thick, sculptured with incised lines on one face thus-
Front.- At the top of the double disc and Z-shaped rod symbol; below this the elephant symbol; and at the bottom the mirror symbol without the comb. The discs are each ornamented with a single concentric circle. The body of the mirror is ornamented with a single circle, not concentric with the outline. The handle of the mirror is of the double disc pattern.
This stone is described and pretty correctly illustrated by Mr Andrew Gibb, FSA Scot., in the Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (vol. xii. p. 196).
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903
