Advie

Advie (?St Bride), Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragment

Measurements: H 0.91m, W 0.41m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: NJ 142 353

Present location: built into the wall of the parish church.

Evidence for discovery: thought to have come from the site of the old parish church, close to the River Spey to the north-east of the modern church.

Present condition: broken and weathered.

Description

Trimmed for re-use, this fragment is incised with part of a large crescent and V-rod over a circular disc with a stubby indented rectangle.

Date: seventh century

References: Fraser 2008, no 88.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017

NJ13SW 2 1265 3426, moved from to 142 353.

A rubbing of a fragment of a pictish symbol stone was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1906. It's believed to have been found in the old burial ground of the parish of Advie, near the river and a mile from the present church of Advie on whose vestry wall it is now preserved. The stone fragment is 3 feet long by 1 foot 4 inches wide.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1906.

Now preserved in Advie Church vestry, this Pictish Symbol Stone measuring 0.99m x 0.4m is not complete, but bears a part of the crescent and V-rod and the mirror case, both ornamented within the outline.

Information from R Jones 1980.

Class I symbol stone bearing a crescent and V-rod above a mirrorcase.

A.Mack 1997 p.105