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Description of stone
Event ID 1008393
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008393
Ackergill 2, Caithness, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.31m, W 0.42m, D 0.04m
Stone type: slate
Place of discovery: ND 3483 5499
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (IB 206)
Evidence for discovery: found during excavations in 1925, ‘lying on the surface’ near the head end of a disturbed long cist.
Present condition: broken but the carving is crisp.
Description
This fragment is part of a symbol stone and is finely pecked with a rectangle symbol. The rectangle has a notch in one long side, a median line and two curving lines.
Date: seventh century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
