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Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 52135
Site Number NT27SE 130
NGR NT 250 736
NGR Description NT c. 250 736
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52135
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H1.12m, W 0.69m, D 0.18m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 250 736
Present location: National Museums Scotland (X.IB 1)
Evidence for discovery: found in or shortly before 1856 re-used as a footbridge in Princes Street Gardens and donated to NMAS in 1861.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This slab is broken along its top and bottom edges. It bears two incised Pictish symbols, both apparently plain: a crescent and V-rod (lacking its terminals) and part of a double disc and Z-rod. The latter is vertical rather than horizontal.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Stuart 1856, ii, pl cxxv; ECMS pt 3, 421; Fraser 2008, no 77.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NT27SE 130 c. 250 736.
A sandstone slab, 3'8" x 2'3" x 7", bearing incised symbols, which was found in use as a footbridge of one of the walks in Princes Street gardens, near the Wellhouse Tower (NT 2508 7361) was donated to the NMAS in 1861 by the proprietors of the gardens (Acc No: IB 1). Metric measurements, 1.2m x 0.69m x0.18m.
NMAS 1892; J R Allan and J Anderson 1903.
Class I symbol stone bearing a crescent and V-rod and double-disc and Z-rod.
A Mack 1997.
