Kinellar House
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Kinellar House
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Newton Of Lewesk; Kinellar House Policies
Canmore ID 207090
Site Number NJ81SW 176
NGR NJ 8151 1294
NGR Description Removed to NJ 693 279
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/207090
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kinellar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Newton of Lewesk, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.93m, W 0.55m
Stone type: reddish granite
Place of discovery: NJ c 815 129
Present location: beside the driveway of Kinellar House (NJ 693 279)
Evidence for discovery: found in 1914 ‘embedded in the soil’ on Newton of Lewesk farm. It was taken first to Logie Elphinstone House and later to Kinellar House.
Present condition: plough-damaged edges and parts of the carving are worn.
Description
One face of this irregular boulder bears three or possibly four incised Pictish symbols. A disc and rectangle towards the top of the stone has traces of a spiral design within the disc. Its base touches a rectangle below, which has an inner small square and which may represent a shield with a spear projecting behind it. To the left of this possible shield symbol appears to be part of a single-sided comb with a high back shaped into semi-circular projections. Below the shield is a double crescent symbol with two back-to-back crescents, each with an inner curved projection.
Date: seventh century.
References: Ritchie 1916, 280-5; Fraser 2008, no 39.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
Note (30 January 2002)
NJ81SW 176 8151 1294 (removed to NJ 693 279)
See also NJ62NE 19.
Found near Newton of Lewesk (NJ 815 129), this symbol stone was later moved to the grounds of Logie House, and subsequently to its present position [at NJ 693 279], on a bank beside the driveway of Kinellar House.
Information from RCAHMS (IFr, 30 January 2002).
