Bruceton
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Bruceton
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Bruceton Farm
Canmore ID 31054
Site Number NO25SE 17
NGR NO 28985 50399
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31054
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Alyth
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Bruceton, Perthshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.37m, W 0.91m, D 0.28m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 2898 5039
Present location: in situ in a field on Bruceton Farm.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by Stuart in the mid nineteenth century.
Present condition: worn.
Description
The south–east face of this slab is incised with two Pictish symbols: an arch with traces of internal ornament above a finely scrolled Pictish beast.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 111; ECMS pt 3, 282-3; Fraser 2008, no 178.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NO25SE 17 2898 5039.
Situated in field 400m S of Bruceton farmhouse. Class I; inscribed on one face with an arch above an elephant symbol.
J Stuart 1856; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; H Coutts 1970; RCAHMS 1985.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS 7 October 1970.
Class I symbol stone with a horseshoe above an elephant on the S.S.E.face.
A.Mack 1997.
Field Visit (14 April 1987)
This Class 1 Pictish symbol stone, measuring up to 1.40m high, 0.25m thick and 0.80m wide, stands in a field 400m S of Bruceton farmsteading on the haughland of the River Isla. On the S face it bears the symbols: an arch and the 'Pictish beast' or 'elephant'. Macfarlane records the discovery of human bones on the haugh, while Stuart notes that about 1841 a number of cists were found less than 18m from the stone NO 25 SE 15.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 14 April 1987.
W Macfarlane 1906; RCAHMS 1990.
