Abernethy
Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Abernethy
Classification Carved Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Abernethy No. 3
Canmore ID 27995
Site Number NO11NE 82
NGR NO 18 16
NGR Description NO c. 18 16
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Abernethy (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Abernethy 3 (?St Bridget), Perthshire, carved fragment
Measurements: H0.22m, W 0.34m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c18 16
Present location: unknown.
Evidence for discovery: found built into the gable wall of a cottage near the Council House in Abernethy in the nineteenth century.
Present condition:
Description
This was a trimmed fragment of a slab carved with diagonal key pattern.
Date: ninth or tenth century
References: ECMS pt 3, 310; Proudfoot 1997, 49.
Compiled by A Ritchie
NO11NE 82 c. 18 16.
A stone, sculptured on one face with a diagonal key-pattern in relief is built into the gable wall of a cottage in Abernethy, near the Council House.
D Butler 1897; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.
Not located.
Visited by OS 4 August 1965.
The present whereabouts of this stone is not known.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 25November 1996.
