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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

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Drumoak
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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.

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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.

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