Grantown, Cnoc-an-fruich
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Grantown, Cnoc-an-fruich
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Frenchies Hillock; Cnock-an-fruich
Canmore ID 15737
Site Number NJ03SW 3
NGR NJ 0452 3012
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15737
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Morayshire
Grantown, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.22m, W 0.56m, D 0.06m
Stone type: mica schist
Place of discovery: NJ 0452 3012
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB.10).
Evidence for discovery: found in the early 1860s in digging into a small knoll.
Present condition: good.
Description
This slab is incised with a fine study of a stag with scroll joints walking towards the right, over a divided rectangle with a rough circle at the top right and bottom left corners.
Date: seventh century
References: ECMS pt 3, 26-7; Fraser 2008, no 93.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Grantown, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.22m, W 0.56m, D 0.06m
Stone type: mica schist
Place of discovery: NJ 0452 3012
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB.10).
Evidence for discovery: found in the early 1860s in digging into a small knoll.
Present condition: good.
Description
This slab is incised with a fine study of a stag with scroll joints walking towards the right, over a divided rectangle with a rough circle at the top right and bottom left corners.
Date: seventh century
References: ECMS pt 3, 26-7; Fraser 2008, no 93.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
The symbol stone found in digging the knoll called Cnoc-an-Fruich, a place near Grantown, is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession No. IB 10). It is a slab of mica schist of rectangular shape 4ft by 10 inches by 9 inches thick, incised on one face.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.
Cnoc-an Fruich, or Freuchie's Hillock - a large mound or knoll at NJ 0452 3012.
Information from G A Dixon, 13 Thirlestane Rd., Edinburgh, to OS, November 1970.
Field Visit (2 September 1966)
No local knowledge of the symbol stone. The name Cnoc-an-Fruich is not known locally but Knockenruich Wood (centred at NJ 045 287) is obviously a derivation of it. There are several knolls within the wood, recently reafforested.
Visited by OS (NKB) 2 September 1966.
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone bearing a stag above a rectangle.
A Mack 1997 p.33
