Logie Elphinstone, Pictish Symbol Stones
Date Stone (19th Century), Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Site Name Logie Elphinstone, Pictish Symbol Stones
Classification Date Stone (19th Century), Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Logie House Policies; Chapel Of Garioch; Logie House; Moor Of Carden
Canmore ID 18853
Site Number NJ72NW 7
NGR NJ 70335 25889
NGR Description Centred NJ 70335 25889
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18853
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Chapel Of Garioch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72NW 7.00 centred 70335 25889
NJ72NW 7.01 NJ 7034 2588 Pictish Symbol Stone
NJ72NW 7.02 NJ 7034 2588 Pictish Symbol Stone: Ogham Inscribed
NJ72NW 7.03 NJ 7034 2588 Pictish Symbol Stone
NJ72NW 7.04 NJ 7034 2588 Pictish Symbol Stone
(NJ 7034 2588) Stones (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Another stone was placed with the three at Elphinstone, and is now lost.
See Newton of Lewesk, NJ62NE 19.
Three class I symbol stones of whinstone, each incised on one face, originally lay horizontally and close to each other on the Moor of Carden (NJ 69 26: NJ62NE 43). Near the moor was planted about 1812, they were built into the plantation wall on the W side of the wood and the E side of the road (NSA 1845) (NJ 6880 2663 - see OS 6" map 1867). The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1867) says that 'two were on the S (E has been scored out and S inserted) and the other on the W side of the lodge', but their orientation is obviously incorrect), but they have since been erected in the garden of Logie House. A fourth stone, which was used by the tenant as a hearth-stone in his kiln, was split by heat and destroyed (Allen and Anderson 1903).
NSA 1845; Name Book 1867; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; W D Simpson 1943.
(Name cited as Logie House). These stones are situated about 30m N of the drive to Logie House (NJ72NW 5.00), within an area of parkland overgrown with rhodedendrons.
NMRS, MS/712/69, visited 13 February 1981.
Field Visit (28 July 1969)
Three symbol stones as described. Three other stones shown on OS 25" map, 1899 immediately to the N and on the other side of the track are ornamental stones and a sundial.
Visited by OS (AA) 28 July 1969.
Reference (1997)
Three class I symbol stones.
Logie Elphinstone 1 : shows a crescent and V-rod over a double disc and Z-rod.
Logie Elphinstone 2 : crescent and V-rod over a double-disc and Z-rod with an Ogam inscription above.Traces of another double-disc are apparent amongst the symbols.
Logie Elphinstone 3 : crescent and V-rod below an elephant.
A Mack 1997.
Field Visit (5 September 2001)
A group of three Pictish symbol stones, arranged in a triangle, stand in an area of woodland, 160m W of Logie House (NJ72NW 5). The stones originally stood on the Moor of Carden with a fourth stone, since destroyed. A row of six small headstones to the SE of the group commemorate family pets and bear dates between 1912 and 1929.
On an island in the River Urie 70m SSW of Logie House, lies, partially buried, a sandstone datestone. The stone, which measures 0.84m in breadth, 0.52m in height, and 0.11m in thickness, bears (in bold relief and block-like lettering) the inscription, ID . MM . /1838 .. The two letters M are ligatured. The identity of the individuals commemorated, and the provenance of the stone are unknown to the present owners of the house.
Visited by RCAHMS (IFr), 5 September 2001.
