Location
The farm road to "Mains of Rhynie" is to the west of the A97 not far south of village. The stone is in a field opposite the junction about a hundred yards to the east of the A97 and slightly nearer to the village than the junction. Depending on the crop it is not allways visible from road ask permission at the mains to view.
Rhynie, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 497 263
Description
Class I Pictish symbol stone. The stone faces south it is a large stone 180cm by 102cm by 43cm. It has near the top a large Salmon symbol above a Pictish beast. It stands at one side of the inner entrance to an almost imperceptable (but clear in ariel photgraphs of crop marks) multi-vallate circular enclosure crowning the end of a low spur. It could possibly have been a structural feature re-used in situ as a symbol stone.
Related Information
8 symbol stones are known from Rhynie (suggesting a site of major importance) including the 'Rhynie Man' carving 7. Rhynie 4 has been broken up and lost, 2 and 3 stand in the village sqare but their carving is now illegible to the human eye, 5, 6 and 8 are nearbye at the old kirkyard.
Era
Dark ages
Related Artefacts
Categories
Iconography
- fish
- pictish symbols
Photographer
- Michael Watt
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