The parish church is an 18th-century building on an early Christian site dating back to the 8th century.

The stone was probably made in the second half of the 8th century. It is not known where it was erected. The oldest sources say that it was found in the cemetery right next to the parish church of Nigg.

Today the stone stands in the church. The stone is about 2.2 meters high and one meter wide. The hemispherical ornamentation, which conveys spatial depth, is known from a drawing in the Lindisfarne Gospels. There are further similarities to the high crosses from Ireland. Since the stone shows both Christian motifs and, with the Pictish Beast, at least one of the classic Pictish symbols, it is both a Pictish symbol stone and a cross slab.