Tillytarmont No. 2
Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Site Name Tillytarmont No. 2
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Whitestones House; North Redhill
Canmore ID 17824
Site Number NJ54NW 1
NGR NJ 5297 4705
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17824
- Council Moray
- Parish Rothiemay
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
Tillytarmont 2, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.30m above ground, W 0.61m, D 0.16m
Stone type: red granite
Place of discovery: NJ c 533 473
Present location: in the grounds of Whitestones House, Morayshire, NJ 5297 4705.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1944 on a promontory at the confluence of the Isla and Deveron rivers on North Tillytarmont Farm and taken to the grounds of Whitestones House.
Present condition: worn and the top right corner is broken away.
Description
On one broad face of this slab are incised two Pictish symbols: a crescent and V-rod above a double disc and Z-rod. The discs have non-concentric internal rings.
Date: seventh century.
References: Fraser 2008, no 46.2.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (5 February 1964)
The stones, as described and illustrated above, are at NJ 5297 4705, in the grounds of Whitestones House.
Mr Riddoch indicated the approximate original positions of Stones Nos. 2 and 3 at NJ 5331 4715. See NJ54NW 22.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RDL) 5 February 1964; Information from Mr Riddoch, Whitestones House.
Desk Based Assessment (1964)
NJ54NW 1 5297 4705
See also NJ52NW 11 and NJ54NE 25.
There are three symbol stones at Whitestones [House]. Two were found in the field called Donaldstone Haugh (centred at NJ 533 473) and are now labelled Tillytarmont Nos. 2 (NJ54NW 1) and 3 (NJ54NW 80) to agree with Ferguson (1956) and to avoid confusion. (For Tillytarmont No. 1, see NJ54NW 11.)
Tillytarmont No. 2 (NJ54NW 1): This stone was ploughed up from a depth of two feet in 1944. It is of red granite, 4'3" high x 2' wide and 6" thick; it bears the crescent, V-rod, double-disc and Z-rod symbols.
Tillytarmont No. 3 (NJ54NW 80): This stone was first discovered a little before 1867 and re-discovered by W D Simpson in 1954 (Ferguson 1956). It is of red granite, 3' 9" high,x 3' wide x 1'3" thick. Its markings are faint, but consist of the crescent without the V-rod and one ring containing a concentric inner ring. There are pitted marks to the right.
The third stone at Whitestones (NJ54NW 81) was found many years previous to 1903 on the farm of North Redhill (NJ 560 467). The finder re-cut the spiral and rectangular ornament on the left of the stone leaving the ornament to the right as he found it. It is of whinstone, measuring 2'8" high x 1'11" wide and 10 1/2" thick. This stone was first built into a dyke on the farm, then removed to Rothiemay Castle (NJ54NE 7) and then to this site.
(See NJ54NE 25 for original site).
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; W D Simpson 1935; W Ferguson 1956.
Information from OS.
Field Visit (4 July 1967)
No Change.
Visited by OS (RL) 4 July 1967.
Reference (1994)
These three stones are at Whitestones House (NJ 5297 4705):
(Tillytarmont 2: former location cited as NJ 5331 4715). This stone was ploughed up in 1944. It is of red granite, measures 1.27m by 0.6m and 0.16m in thickness, and is incised with a crescent and V-rod and
double-disc symbols.
RCAHMS 1994
Reference (1997)
Tillytarmont 2 : crescent and V-rod above a double-disc and Z-rod.
A Mack 1997.
