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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- Council Moray
- Parish Knockando
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
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
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.