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<< Our Photo Pages >> Upper Manbeen - Class I Pictish Symbol Stone in Scotland in Moray

Submitted by alligator on Monday, 24 March 2003  Page Views: 8367

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Upper Manbeen Alternative Name: Upper Manbean
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 3.7 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Moray Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone

Map Ref: NJ1868957615  Landranger Map Number: 28
Latitude: 57.601189N  Longitude: 3.362187W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Upper Manbeen
Upper Manbeen submitted by wiccaman9 : Upper Manbean Pictish Stone, left 'rotting' away in a farmers field. Has no protection from the elements, and is fast fading away into obscurity. Shows a UNIQUE dog headed salmon type fish, dog head to right, tail fin to left. Beneath which is a badly eroded comb and mirror. Aron Bowers (Vote or comment on this photo)
Upper Manbean class 1 Pictish Stone, which is left 'rotting' away in a farmers field. It has no protection from the elements, and is fast fading away into obscurity.

The stone shows a UNIQUE dog headed salmon type fish, dog head to right, tail fin to left. Beneath which is a badly eroded comb and mirror.
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Upper Manbeen
Upper Manbeen submitted by durhamnature : Drawing when the stone was clearer, from "Sculptured Stones of Scotland" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Upper Manbeen
Upper Manbeen submitted by wiccaman9 : Close up of the fish creature, with its' wolf like head (reminiscent of the Ardross wolf of Inverness museum), and salmon like body and tail. Aron Bowers (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NJ1857 : Barley Field at Upper Manbeen by Anne Burgess
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NJ1857 : Upper Manbeen Pictish Symbol Stone (2) by Anne Burgess
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NJ1857 : Upper Manbeen Pictish Symbol Stone (3) by Anne Burgess
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NJ1857 : Upper Manbeen Pictish Symbol Stone (4) by Anne Burgess
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Re: Upper Manbeen by wiccaman9 on Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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2 of a group of photographs taken of the Upper Manbean stone have been posted, to reveal the decay, and the unusual beast portrayed.

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Re: Upper Manbeen by wiccaman9 on Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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Upper Manbean Pictish Stone is Unique for its' strange creature portrayed, marginally reminiscent of the Hippocampi of Rodney's/Rotteny's Stone, by Brodie. The head is distinctly wolf like, rather reminiscent of the Ardross wolf, currently held at Inverness Museum. The body is broad, and with a spatulated Salmon like tail.

Beneath the fish lies a feminine symbol, a double edged comb, adjacent to a mirror.

Old graffiti at the top of the stone is barely legible, as are the depictions themselves. The stone has no cover, no protection from the elements, and as such, standing in a farmers field, it is slowly being etched away by time and acidic rain.

I firmly believe that such treasures urgently need better protection. It seems that with Pictish art, any animalistic or pagan idolatery is left to rot away, which is often the case with early classI pictish stones, and that later cII or cIII stones -with early christian symbols somehow get uplifted, put into museums, brought into churches for greater protection!!

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