Collace, Fairygreen
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Collace, Fairygreen
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 30680
Site Number NO23SW 4
NGR NO 2069 3319
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30680
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Cargill
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Collace, Perthshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.61m, W 0.41m, D 0.08m
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 212328
Present location: Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1948 and reused as a paving stone until 1962 when it was taken to the museum.
Present condition: broken but carving good.
Description
The carving on this slab is in particularly fine incision. At the top is the lower part of a tuning fork symbol, infilled with leaf-shaped ornament, above a Pictish beast, below which is a single-sided comb and a mirror of which the lower part of the handle is missing.
Date: seventh century.
References: Small 1962; Fraser 2008, no 180.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
This stone was found in 1948 buried in a field; measuring 0.6m by 0.4m and 0.08m thick it bears in fine incision a 'beast', mirror and comb and a decorated rectangle. Now in Aberdeen University Museum.
A Small 1962; I B M Ralston and J Inglis 1984; RCAHMS 1985.
Field Visit (5 February 1969)
NO23SW 4 2069 3319 Mr J Alexander, farmer, Fairygreen who found this stone, pointed out the find-spot at NO 2069 3319.
Visited by OS, 5 February 1969.
Note (15 December 1992)
In 1948 a fragment of a decorated sandstone slab was found in the course of ploughing some 330m W of Fairygreen, Collace; it was presented to the Anthropological Museum, University of Aberdeen (ABDUA 15591) in 1962. Measuring 0.63m by 0.41m and 0.08m in thickness, it bears finely-incised ornament with a 'Pictish beast' at the centre of the surviving portion, with a decorated rectangle set above it and a mirror and comb beneath.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 15 December 1992.
Publication Account (1997)
Class I symbol stone showing a tuning-fork and elephant with mirror-and-comb below.
A Mack 1997.
