Drummies
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Drummies
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Drimmies
Canmore ID 18985
Site Number NJ72SW 16
NGR NJ 7426 2350
NGR Description Removed from NJ 742 235
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18985
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Inverurie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Drimmies (Drummies), Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.28m, W 0.62m, D 0.28m
Stone type: red granite
Place of discovery: NJ 7426 2350
Present location: set into a garden wall near the stables at Drimmies Farm.
Evidence for discovery: in the mid nineteenth century it was built into the wall of a byre but had been removed and built into the garden wall before the end of the century.
Present condition: the top is missing and the stone is weathered.
Description
A slab that tapers slightly from the top down, one broad face is incised with four symbols. At the top as it survives are traces of an arch, while below is an ogee or S-figure, above a mirror with a double-ball handle and a double-sided bone comb.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 9, ECMS pt 3, 162-3; Fraser 2008, no 16.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (6 March 1964)
This stone is now at NJ 7426 2350.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RD), 6 March 1964.
Desk Based Assessment (1964)
NJ72SW 16 7426 2350 (Removed from NJ 742 235)
(NJ 742 235). There is a symbol stone built into the wall of a garden facing the high road on the east side at the entrance to the stables behind the farmhouse of Drummies.
It is a slab of red granite 4ft 1in (1.24m) high, by 1ft 3ins (0.38m) wide at the bottom and 2ft (0.61m) wide at the top, by 11ins (0.287m) thick, sculptured on one face.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; G F Browne 1921.
Information from OS, c. 1964.
Field Visit (18 October 1977)
(Name cited as Drimmies). This symbol stone is situated at an altitude of about 70m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/71, visited 18 October 1977.
External Reference (1980)
A symbol stone of red granite, 1.2m x 0.38m x 0.28m swelling towards the top, is set into the garden wall to the E of the stable entrance behind Drummies farmhouse. It is inscribed with the remains of a horseshoe symbol, below which come the ogee curve symbol and a mirror and comb.
Information from R Jones 1980.
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone. The NW face shows an ogee over a mirror-and-comb with the end of a horseshoe above.
A Mack 1997; (Undated) information in NMRS.
