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Description of stone
Event ID 1008392
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008392
Ackergill 1, Caithness, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: L 1.22m, W 0.61m, D 0.08m
Stone type: Caithness flagstone
Place of discovery: ND 3483 5499
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (IB 168)
Evidence for discovery: found in August 1896 by John Nicholson on a mound on the links beside Sinclair’s Bay. It was given to the museum in 1897.
Present condition: slab has flaked but the surviving carving is crisp.
Description
The broad smooth face of the slab is finely pecked with a large rectangle symbol containing spiral ornament, above which is the lower part of a fish with two fins. To the left of the symbols and cut at an acute angle to them is an ogham inscription reading NEHTETRI.
Date: eighth century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
