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Fyvie

Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Site Name Fyvie

Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Alternative Name(s) Fyvie No. 2

Canmore ID 19034

Site Number NJ73NE 1.02

NGR NJ 7684 3777

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Fyvie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Fyvie 2, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 0.71m, W 0.30m

Stone type: whinstone

Place of discovery: NJ 7684 3777

Present location: built into the east gable of the chancel of Fyvie church, under the window.

Evidence for discovery: it was built into an exterior wall of Fyvie church, presumably when the latter was built in 1803. It was probably in the east gable, as it was incorporated into the new chancel of the church in 1903.

Present condition: it was trimmed into a rectangular slab for re-use as a building stone. The carving is very weathered.

Description

The slab as it survives is incised with the right-hand portion of a double-disc and Z-rod above the central portion of a very stylised eagle.

Date: seventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 164-6; Fraser 2008, no 23.2.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017

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External Reference (1980)

NJ73NE 1.02 7684 3777.

No. 2. Also built into the gable at Fyvie church is a whinstone slab measuring 0.76m x 0.35m, bearing a double-disc and the eagle symbol facing to the right.

Information from R Jones 1980.

Reference (1997)

Two class I symbol stones.

Fyvie 1 : crescent and V-rod over a mirror and an elephant

Fyvie 2 : part of a double-disc above an eagle.

A Mack 1997; (Undated) information in NMRS.

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