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Knockando

Rune Inscribed Stone (Norse)

Site Name Knockando

Classification Rune Inscribed Stone (Norse)

Canmore ID 69929

Site Number NJ14SE 1.03

NGR NJ 1862 4283

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Knockando
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Knockando 3 (St Brendan?), Morayshire, rune-inscribed stone

Measurements: H c 1.90m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NJ 1862 4283

Present location: built into the boundary wall of Knockando churchyard near the entrance, alongside the Pictish symbol stones Canmore 16043 and 16044.

Evidence for discovery: possibly brought from Pulvrenan burial ground along with the symbol stones prior to 1856.

Present condition: worn.

Description

A rectangular slab bears on one broad face four runes set vertically. The stone was re-used as a recumbent graveslab in the eighteenth century, when the name I A HAY and the date 1714 were added beneath the runes.

Date range: early medieval.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019

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Desk Based Assessment

NJ14SE 1.03 1862 4283

One of a group of three stones now set into the wall at the entrance to the churchyard, with Scandinavian runes of possibly the 9th or 10th century.

Information from OS.

J Stuart 1867; Name Book 1870; D Wilson 1883; J Allen and J Anderson 1903; H B Mackintosh 1924.

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