Aberlemno
| Aberlemno Gaelic: Obar Leamhnach | |
| Angus | |
|---|---|
 Aberlemno Kirk | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NO521558 |
| Location: | 56°41’29"N, 2°47’1"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Forfar |
| Postcode: | DD8 |
| Dialling code: | 01307 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Angus |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Angus |
Aberlemno is a small village and parish in Angus.
The village is noted for three large carved Pictish stones and one fragment stone dating from the 7th and 8th centuries AD[1]; the stones can be viewed at any time in spring-autumn, but are covered by wooden boxes in the winter to prevent frost damage.
Two stones (and the fragment) stand by the B9134 Forfar-Brechin road. The Kirkyard Stone stands in the nearby graveyard of the parish church. A fifth stone that is currently on display at McManus Galleries.
Miscellany
A genus of fossil plants first found in a nearby quarry is named Aberlemnia in honour of the location of their discovery.
Outside links
- Aberlemno - Historic Environment Scotland
- Aberlemno Stones: I, II, III, V
- Aberlemno Sculptured Stones
References
- ↑ Historic Scotland
- Crombie, J. (1842). The new statistical account of Scotland, Parish of Aberlemno, Forfarshire. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=He81AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA626. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- Cummins, WA (1999). The Picts and their symbols. Stroud, Gloucester: Sutton Publishing.
- Fraser, James E. (2006), The Pictish Conquest: The Battle Of Dunnichen 685 and the Birth of Scotland, Stroud, Gloucester: Tempus
- Jervise, Andrew (1856). "Notices descriptive of the localities of certain sculptured stone monuments in Forfarshire, &c. (Part I.)". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2: 187–201. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_002/2_187_201.pdf.
- Laing, L (2000). "The Chronology and Context of Pictish Relief Sculpture". Mediæval Archaeology 34: 81–114. doi:10.1179/med.2000.44.1.81. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol44/44_081_114.pdf.
- Mitchel, A. (1792). The statistical account of Scotland, Parish of Aberlemno, County of Forfar. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nPpp6ED8c3EC&pg=PA60. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- Nennius. "Historia Brittonum". Archived from the original on 27 July 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090727195712/http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nennius-full.html. Retrieved 2009-08-29.