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Photograph illustrating boar carved on rock.

SC 337205

Description Photograph illustrating boar carved on rock.

Date 1978

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 337205

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 8715

Scope and Content Fort at Dunadd, Argyll and Bute Dunadd is rocky knoll that rises out of the flat valley floor and was one of the main centres of the Kingdom of Dalriada. It has been excavated in 1904, 1929 and between 1980-81. The artefacts are now in the Royal Museum of Scotland. The image is of part of a carved slab in the SW end of the lower enclosure. There is the outline of a boar, similar to the Pictish symbol, a footprint, a hollowed-out basin and several lines of ogam which make use of natural fissures. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/337205

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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