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Glenferness, Pictish cross-slab. From J Stuart, The Sculptured Stones of Scotland, i, pl.xxiv.

SC 342311

Description Glenferness, Pictish cross-slab. From J Stuart, The Sculptured Stones of Scotland, i, pl.xxiv.

Collection Copies of illustrations from John Stuart, The Sculptured Stones of Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 342311

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 8524

Scope and Content Cross-slab known as The Princess Stone at Glenferness, Nairn, Highland This cross-slab now stands 300 m S of Glenferness House. It originally stood nearby beside a small cairn on the bank of the Princess Pool, which the stone is named after. This is a drawing of the stone which appeared in John Stuart's 1856 publication 'The Sculptured Stones of Scotland'. At the top is a panel filled with interlace. Below are two Pictish Beasts, a crescent and V-rod, double-disc and Z-rod and an archer. A local folktale claims that the cairn the stone once stood on contains the bodies of a Pictish princess and a Scandinavian prince. They are said to have drowned whilst eloping. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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