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Description of stone

Event ID 1008855

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008855

Sandside House 1, Caithness: Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.44m, W 0.89m, D 0.10m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NC 951 651

Present location: fixed (upside down) to a garden wall at the rear of the house.

Evidence for discovery: found around 1850 ‘near the site of an ancient settlement’ on the sandy links close to the shore, the stone was used as part of the covering of the mill lade at Sandside Farm. In September 1889 it was extracted and taken to Sandside House.

Present condition: good.

Description

Finely incised on a smooth broad face of the slab are the triple oval symbol above a disc with indented rectangle, a mirror and a comb (no teeth depicted). Within the disc of the disc with indented rectangle there is a double circle offset from the centre of the disc.

Date: seventh century.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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