Knockando
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Knockando
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 16043
Site Number NJ14SE 1.01
NGR NJ 1862 4283
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Moray
- Parish Knockando
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Knockando 1 (St Brendan?), Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.45m, W 0.56m
Stone type: gneiss
Place of discovery: NJ 2026 4218
Present location: cemented against the inner face of the churchyard wall beside the gate at Knockando Church (NJ 18672 42883).
Evidence for discovery: Stuart records that the stone was said to have been brought around 1810 from the old burial ground at Pulvrenan (Canmore 16391 & 270555), along with Knockando 2 and 3.
Present condition: weathered with edge damage.
Description
On the upper broad face of this slab are incised a rayed disc symbol above two crescent and V-rod symbols.
Date: seventh century
References: Stuart 1867, 61, pl 105; ECMS pt 3, 127-8; Fraser 2008, no 160.1.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Reference (1903)
NJ14SE 1.01 1862 4283
No. 1 This slab of gneiss of irregular four-sided shape, 4ft 9ins (1.45m) x 1ft 10ins (0.55m) sculptured with incised lines on one face. The front - at the top a circle with a smaller concentric circle in the centre, the intermediate space being ornamented with radial lines; and below two crescent and V-shaped rod symbols placed side by side and ornamented with curved lines. This stone, along with NJ14SE 1.2, is said to have been brought from an old burial ground at NJ 2026 4218 at Pulvrenan (NJ24SW 4). They are now built into the wall at the churchyard entrance: neither stone is in good condition.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; RCAHMS 1985; J Stuart 1867.
