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Description of stone
Event ID 1009930
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009930
East Wemyss, Dovecot Cave, Fife, Pictish rock carvings
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 3433 9700
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: Simpson and others visited the caves in 1865.
Present condition: unknown owing to the roof collapse.
Description
Simpson describes and illustrates many of the lost symbols, including a double-disc and Z-rod touching a beast’s head, a Pictish beast, arch symbols, a flower symbol and birds.
Date range: sixth to eighth century
References: Simpson 1866; Ritchie & Stevenson 1993; Fraser 2008, no 81.2
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
