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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
