Parc-an-caipel, Congash, Congash 2
Pictish Symbol Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Parc-an-caipel, Congash, Congash 2
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Congash, Old Kirkyard; Congash Graveyard; Congash, Grantown
Canmore ID 319517
Site Number NJ02NE 1.02
NGR NJ 05789 26204
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319517
- Council Highland
- Parish Abernethy And Kincardine
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
Reference (1903)
No.2 forms the jamb on the left-hand side on entering the enclosure and is a slab of blue gneiss of irregular shape, 3 feet 9 inches high by 2 feet 6 inches wide by 5 inches thick, sculptured with incised lines on one face thus.-
Front.- At the top of the double disc and Z-shaped rod symbol and below it a figure resembling a helmet transfixed by an arrow.
The discs of the first symbol are ornamented with circles, one inside the other, but not concentric; and the second symbol has a small circle in the centre and straight lines at right angles to the arrows.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903
External Reference (1980)
Congash Nos. 1 and 2. Two Pictish symbol stones were found in a small circular enclosure on Congash Farm, one on the E side of the entrance and one on the W. No. 1 is of blue gneiss, measuring 0.96m x 0.66m x 0.25m and bears the horseshoe and elephant symbols. It has weathered considerably. No. 2 is in good condition and the incised decoration still very clear. It measures 1.14m x 0.76m x 0.12m, is of blue gneiss and bears the double disc and Z-rod, and an unusual symbol which looks like a helmet pierced by an arrow.
Information from R Jones to OS, 1980.
Reference (1997)
Two class I symbol stones.
Congash 1 : Horseshoe above an elephant.
Congash 2 : Double-disc and Z-rod above a helmet.
A Mack 1997.
