Description of stone
Event ID 1009929
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009929
East Wemyss, Court Cave, Fife, Pictish rock carvings
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 3427 9694
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: Simpson and others visited the caves in 1865.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
In the smaller cave there is an incised human figure holding a club in the left hand and a possible animal to the right of the figure. In the larger cave are two double-disc symbols, one with traces of a floriated rod.
Date range: sixth to seventh century.
References: Simpson 1866; Ritchie & Stevenson 1993; Fraser 2008, no 81.1
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016