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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19034
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fyvie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
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
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.
