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North Redhill

Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Site Name North Redhill

Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Alternative Name(s) Whitestones House; North Redhill

Canmore ID 17814

Site Number NJ54NE 25

NGR NJ 5297 4705

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Rothiemay
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Banffshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

North Redhill, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragment

Measurements: H c 0.81m, W 0.58m, D 0.26m

Stone type: whinstone

Place of discovery: NJ c 560 457

Present location: set upright in the grounds of Whitestones House, Morayshire, NJ 5297 4705.

Evidence for discovery: found built into a dyke sometime before 1884.

Present condition: weathered.

Description

This fragment is incised with part of a notched rectangle and possibly another rectangle.

Date: seventh century

References: ECMS pt 3, 154-5; Fraser 2008, no 162.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018

Archaeology Notes

NJ54NE 25 NJ 560 467

Found prior to 1884, this fragment of whinstone, now at Whitestones House, Aberdeenshire (NJ 5297 4705), bears a portion of a rectangle with a semi-circular notch.

Allen 1903; Simpson, W D 1935; Ferguson 1956; Nicoll 1995; Mack 1997.

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Field Visit (5 February 1964)

The stones, as described and illustrated above, are at NJ 5297 4705, in the grounds of Whitestones House.

Mr Riddoch indicated the approximate original positions of Stones Nos. 2 and 3 at NJ 5331 4715. See NJ54NW 22.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RDL) 5 February 1964; Information from Mr Riddoch, Whitestones House.

Desk Based Assessment (1964)

NJ54NW 1 5297 4705

See also NJ52NW 11 and NJ54NE 25.

There are three symbol stones at Whitestones [House]. Two were found in the field called Donaldstone Haugh (centred at NJ 533 473) and are now labelled Tillytarmont Nos. 2 (NJ54NW 1) and 3 (NJ54NW 80) to agree with Ferguson (1956) and to avoid confusion. (For Tillytarmont No. 1, see NJ54NW 11.)

Tillytarmont No. 2 (NJ54NW 1): This stone was ploughed up from a depth of two feet in 1944. It is of red granite, 4'3" high x 2' wide and 6" thick; it bears the crescent, V-rod, double-disc and Z-rod symbols.

Tillytarmont No. 3 (NJ54NW 80): This stone was first discovered a little before 1867 and re-discovered by W D Simpson in 1954 (Ferguson 1956). It is of red granite, 3' 9" high,x 3' wide x 1'3" thick. Its markings are faint, but consist of the crescent without the V-rod and one ring containing a concentric inner ring. There are pitted marks to the right.

The third stone at Whitestones (NJ54NW 81) was found many years previous to 1903 on the farm of North Redhill (NJ 560 467). The finder re-cut the spiral and rectangular ornament on the left of the stone leaving the ornament to the right as he found it. It is of whinstone, measuring 2'8" high x 1'11" wide and 10 1/2" thick. This stone was first built into a dyke on the farm, then removed to Rothiemay Castle (NJ54NE 7) and then to this site.

(See NJ54NE 25 for original site).

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; W D Simpson 1935; W Ferguson 1956.

Information from OS.

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