Park House, Symbol Stone
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Park House, Symbol Stone
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Park House Estate; Park House Policies
Canmore ID 36624
Site Number NO79NE 44.10
NGR NO 78014 97662
NGR Description Removed from NO c. 794 984
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36624
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Drumoak
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Park House, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.71m, W 0.34m
Stone type: granite
Place of discovery: NO c 794 984
Present location: on the Park House estate at NO 7801 9766
Evidence for discovery: found in the first half of the nineteenth century at the west end of Keith’s Moor and taken to the grounds of Park House, where it was set on a stone pedestal carved as an inaccurate replica of the stone it supports.
Present condition: broken or trimmed top and bottom and left-hand side.
Description
This is part of an incised symbol stone with a pair of symbols one above the other and a mirror and comb beneath. At the top there is part of what was probably a notched flower symbol (or less likely a notched rectangle with part of another symbol to its right), and below is a crescent and V-rod. The mirror had a double-ball handle, now incomplete, and the comb was a double-sided comb.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 12; ECMS pt 3, 180-1; Ritchie 1915, 39-40; Fraser 2008, no 40.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Field Visit (December 1983)
NO79NE 44.10 78014 97662 (Removed from NO c. 794 984)
About 1821 a fragment (0.68m by 0.33m by 0.29m) of a Class 1 Pictish symbol stone was removed from Keith's Muir, East Park (formerly Bakebare Farm) at NO c.794 984 and set on a pedestal 100m NNE of Park House. It bears three symbols: part of what is probably a 'flower'; a crescent and V-rod; and a mirror-and-comb.
J Stuart 1856; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; J Ritchie 1915; RCAHMS 1984, visited December 1983.
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone showing on the SE face a crescent-and V-rod with parts of a mirror-and-comb below and a divided rectangle above.
A Mack 1997.