Description of stone
Event ID 1009943
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009943
Strathmiglo, Fife, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.67m, W 0.58m, D 0.40m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO c 209 101
Present location: set against the wall outside the gate into Strathmiglo graveyard.
Evidence for discovery: recognised in 1969 re-used as a gate post near Westmill and moved to Strathmiglo sometime before the end of 1978.
Present condition: weathered and damaged, especially along the edges of the stone.
Description
Incised towards the top of a tapering pillar of stone are two Pictish symbols: a disc and elongated notched rectangle above a deer’s head. The deer has a large oval eye and spirals at the base of the neck.
Date: seventh century.
References: DES 1969, 25; Fraser 2008, no 85.
