Tom Na Heron
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Tom Na Heron
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Inveravon
Canmore ID 16329
Site Number NJ23SW 2
NGR NJ 2084 3103
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16329
- Council Moray
- Parish Inveravon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
Nineteenth-century accounts describe what appears to have been a Pictish symbol stone, which once stood amongst the field clearance cairns on Tom na Heron. The stone appears to have been lost at some point before the end of the nineteenth century.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
Tom na Heron, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements:
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NJ 2084 3103
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: recorded by the Ordnance Survey around 1870 and lost by the end of the century.
Present condition:
Description
The stone is said to have been incised with a serpent and other designs.
Date: possibly seventh century
References: Fraser 2008, no 163.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
NJ23SW 2 2084 3103
(NJ 2084 3103) Standing Stone (NR)
Sculptured (Site of).
OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)
A sculptured stone with the figure of a serpent and other symbols incised upon it, formerly stood among the small mounds, or tumuli noted on NJ23SW 1.
The date of its removal could not be found. This stone was not known to J R Allen and J Anderson (1903): it is not one of the three stones in Inveraven Churchyard.
Name Book 1869; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.
Field Visit (25 August 1966)
No further information.
Visited by OS (N K B), 25 August 1966.