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Kinblethmont
Pictish Symbol Stone (7th Century)
Site Name Kinblethmont
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (7th Century)
Canmore ID 35444
Site Number NO64NW 12
NGR NO 6380 4733
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35444
- Council Angus
- Parish Inverkeilor
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Kinblethmont, Angus, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.46m, W 0.38m, D 0.23m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 6380 4733
Present location: at Kinblethmont House.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1952.
Present condition: the right-hand side is intact but the other edges are broken.
Description
Despite its broken condition, the four symbols incised on the main face of this stone are clear and so close together that the original stone was probably not much bigger. At the top is a crescent and V-rod with a Pictish beast below facing right. Tucked between and below the legs of the beast are a mirror and single-sided comb, missing their lower portions. A wheel design has been lightly pecked on the lower right-hand edge of the stone and may not be original.
Date range: seventh century.
Primary references: DES 1952, 4; Fraser 2008, no 63.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Field Visit (12 June 1958)
This symbol stone is in the porch of Kinblethmont House. Now in main hall of house.
Visited by OS (JLD) 12 June 1958
Desk Based Assessment (1958)
NO64NW 12 6380 4733.
(NO 6380 4733) Symbol Stone found AD 1952 (NAT)
OS 6" map (1970)
(NO 6380 4733) (F T Wainwright, 28 May 1958). In 1952 a Class I symbol stone was discovered during ploughing about 300 yds N of Kinblethmont House.
It is a large sandstone boulder, now measuring 32" x 27" x 9", but one end has been broken off and is missing. It bears the incised cresent and V-rod, "elephant symbol", and the top of the mirror and comb. Excavation revealed a socket 10" deep cut in the rock, 1' below the present ground level. The missing portion of the stone was not found, and it is unlikely that this was the original site. The stone is preserved in Kinblethmont House.
F T Wainwright 1953
Information from OS Index Card c. 1958
Source: F T Wainwright 1953
Field Visit (March 1978)
Kinblethmont 1 NO 638 473 NO64NW 12
At Kinblethmont House there is part of a Class I symbol stone, which was ploughed up in a field to the N of the house in 1952. It bears the incised symbols of a crescent and V-rod, an 'elephant', and a mirror and comb. A small excavation located a socket for the stone but failed to recover the missing fragments.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
(Wainwright 1951; Coutts 1970,61, no. 17)
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone bearing a crescent and V-rod,elephant and mirror-and-comb.
A.Mack 1997 p.66