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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Dyce Pictish StonesCountry: Scotland
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County: Aberdeenshire Type: Class I / Class II Hybrid Pictish Symbol Stone
Nearest Town: Aberdeen Nearest Village: Dyce
Map Ref: NJ875154
Latitude: 57.229157N Longitude: 2.208677W
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| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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pawel visited on 29th Nov 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Access - you can drive right up to the cemetery. The entry gate is small so people in a wheelchair won't pass through. There are six stones, two large slabs and 4 smaller ones, all next to each other attached to a inner wall of a ruined 13th-century church dedicated to a Pictish missionary, St. Fergus. The chapel is on a premises of a old cemetery.
There is an information board from Historic Scotland giving as a brief history of the stones.
The stones have been in this shelter since 1880s.
The symbols are of Pictish origins and are dated to be some 1100 years old. The symbols include mythical beasts and crosses. There is also written inscription on the side of cross slab in a scripts called ogham.
SandyG visited on 21st Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
HaggisAction have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 5
There are two symbol stones (NJ81NE 8.01 and 8.02) in a recess in the E gable of St Fergus' Church (NJ81NE 13). One (NJ81NE 8.01) is of Class I and is incised with an 'elephant' symbol above a double disc and Z-rod. The other (NJ81NE 8.02) is of Class II and is sculpted on one face only with a Celtic cross ornamented with a central boss of spiral work and elsewhere with interlace. Beside it and below the shaft are the crescent and V-rod, mirror case, double disc and Z-rod, and the triple ring symbols.
Both of these stones are said to have been found in the glebe. They were built into the churchyard wall for a long time before being placed in their present position (J R Allen and J Anderson 1903).
J Ritchie 1911; E W MacKie 1975; R W Feachem 1963
Four other stones (NJ81NE 8.03), which have been turned up in the graveyard, are also preserved in the recess. They vary in size from 12ins by 6ins by 2ins up to 2ft 11ins by 1ft 10ins by 11/2ins; each bears a carved cross of different design (illustrated by Ritchie).
Visited by OS (EGC) 20 October 1961.
J Ritchie 1911.
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