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Corrachree Symbol Stone
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Corrachree Symbol Stone
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Logiemar House; Tarland; Corrachree, Symbol Stone
Canmore ID 17009
Site Number NJ40SE 12
NGR NJ 46155 04698
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17009
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Logie-coldstone
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Corrachree, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 1.52m, W 1.22m, D 0.61m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NJ 4615 0469
Present location: in a field behind Corrachree House.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in the 1870s.
Present condition: badly damaged and weathered.
Description
This must once have been a very substantial stone. It is incised with parts of two symbols, a flower symbol and what may be one end of an arch.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 159; Fraser 2008, no 11.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (18 October 1968)
Corrachree Stone, symbol stone as described. The symbols are still discernible though greatly weathered.
Visited by OS (R L) 18 October 1968.
Desk Based Assessment (1968)
NJ40SE 12 46155 04698
(NJ 4616 0470) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902).
Class I symbol stone.
[Undated] information in NMRS.
The Corrachree Stone, a mere fragment, 5ft high, 4ft wide, 2ft thick, incised with a disc with triscele and two other imperfect symbols, possibly a variety of the crescent symbol.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; J G Michie 1910; A Ogston 1931.
Information from OS, c.1968.
