Old Deer, Deer Abbey
Cross Incised Stone (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Old Deer, Deer Abbey
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Old Deer Abbey; Cistercian Abbey Of Deer
Canmore ID 318420
Site Number NJ94NE 5.02
NGR NJ 96855 48107
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/318420
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Old Deer
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Deer Abbey, Aberdeenshire, Pictish symbol stone and cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.83m, W 0.76m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NJ 9685 4810
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: first recorded around 1850 standing close to Deer Abbey. Sometime later that century it was said to have been built into the foundations of a new lodge nearby.
Present condition:
Description
This was a slightly tapering slab incised on both broad faces. Face A bore two symbols on its narrower end, a rectangle above a crescent and V-rod. The stone was then turned upside down and re-used as a cross-slab, for face C bears an incised outline cross.
Date: seventh century and later.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 4; ECMS pt 3, 162; Fraser 2008, no 14.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone (lost) - showed a rectangle above a crescent and V-rod.
A.Mack 1997 p.138
(Undated) information in NMRS.
External Reference
A symbol stone, sculptured on both sides, stood some years ago at the E end of a range of buildings, but there is now no trace of it.
Finds from Stones' excavations of 1985 are held in Aberdeen [City] Museum.
[Air photographic references and newspaper/typescript references cited].
NMRS, MS/712/35.
Desk Based Assessment
A symbol stone, now lost, stood some years ago at the end of a range of buildings forming part of the abbey. It was 6ft high and 2ft 6ins wide, sculptured on two faces.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; J Stuart 1856
Information from OS.
