Coynach Hill
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Coynach Hill
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Tillypronie House Policies
Canmore ID 139913
Site Number NJ40NW 37
NGR NJ 4435 0591
NGR Description NJ c. 4435 0591
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/139913
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Logie-coldstone
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Coynach Hill, Aberdeenshire, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.33m, W 0.32m, D 0.12m
Stone type: metamorphic
Place of discovery: NJ 4435 0591
Present location: in the garden of Tillypronie House.
Evidence for discovery: found before 1978 in a field wall.
Present condition: all the edges are broken and there is plough damage, but the carving is clear.
Description
This fragment belongs to a substantial slab, probably a cross-slab. Incised on one broad face are traces of two human figures, walking to the left and wearing tunics to just below the knee.
Date: eighth century.
References:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (12 August 1997)
Sometime before 1978 a fragment of a Class 1 Pictish stone, measuring 0.33m by 0.32m and up to 0.12m in thickness, was discovered whilst repairing a dyke c.200m E of Coynach Hill. It is now kept at Tillypronie House (NJ40NW 136). It lies upon the N wall of the terrace immediately adjacent to the W elevation of the dwelling, E of a small iron gate (NJ 4326 0795). The carving, which has been cut upon a metamorphic rock and underscored with an engraved line, shows the legs of two figures whose tunics reach just below the knee.
Pictish stones are known from St. Finan's Church, Migvie (NJ40NW2) and from Tom a' Char, (also at Tillypronie, NJ40NW7), but there is no reason to assume that this fragment is derived from either of these sites. Indeed, the context in which it was found suggests that the stone may not have travelled far from its original location.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, JRS), 12 August 1997.
Note
NJ40NW 37 c. 4435 0591
For Pictish symbol stone (Tom a Char) removed from NJ 430 048 and now at Tillypronie House (NJ 4324 0795), see NJ40NW 7.
Formerly also entered as NJ40NW 136 at cited location NJ 4326 0795.
