Ballintomb
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Ballintomb
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 139356
Site Number NJ02SW 36
NGR NJ 00 24
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/139356
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Morayshire
Finlarig, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.10m, W 0.60m
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NJ c 00 24 NH 9946 2535
Present location: built into the garden wall at Finlarig.
Evidence for discovery: found on Ballintomb farm sometime before 1998.
Present condition: very weathered.
Description
This slab is incised with a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod, both with internal ornament including spirals within the rectangle.
Date: seventh century.
References: Fraser 2008, no 89 (Ballintomb).
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
External Reference (1998)
NJ02SW 36 c. 00 24
A Pictish symbol stone, found on Ballintomb farm, is now built into the face of the garden wall of Finlarig farmhouse
(NH 995 253). It bears a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod.
Information from I Fisher and A Mack, 1998.
Publication Account (2007)
The Ballintomb and Inverallan stones both bear a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod whilst Findlarig displays the same two symbols in reverse order, making an interesting sub-group. Unlike the others, Inverallan is poorly carved, its undecorated crescent being asymmetrical and rather angular but the crescent on the Findlarig fragment is most noteworthy as, when reconstructed it measures 760mm from tip to tip, more than twice the size of the others and certainly one of the largest symbols to appear on any class I stone. One could interpret this outsized symbol as having particular emphasis placed uponit, but equally, the sculptor may just have been utilising the available area, in this instance making the most of what was clearly a wide slab.
Information from ‘Commissioners’ Field Meeting 2007'.
