Description of stone

Event ID 1008403

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Craig of Hattel, Caithness, possible Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.83m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: ND 1877 6901

Present location: lost.

Evidence for discovery: recorded in the nineteenth century (OS Name Book 1873).

Present condition:

Description

This was a tall standing stone, said to have been carved with ‘a very crude drawing, resembling a greyhound’.

Date: uncertain.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016