Description of stone
Event ID 1009932
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009932
East Wemyss, Jonathan’s Cave, Fife, Pictish rock carvings
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 3456 9723
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: Simpson and others visited the caves in 1865.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
On the walls are carved double-disc symbols, Pictish beasts, birds, animals and fish, together with a boat with high prow and stern, rudder and five oars.
Date range: sixth to eighth century.
References: Simpson 1866; Ritchie & Stevenson 1993; Fraser 2008, no 81.3.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016