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Description of stone
Event ID 1009945
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009945
Westfield Farm 1, Strathmiglo, Fife, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.74m, W 0.42m, D 0.16m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO 2384 0732
Present location: Laing Museum, Newburgh.
Evidence for discovery: found built into a byre at Westfield Farm and taken first to Falkland Palace and thence to the Laing Museum.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use and some surface damage.
Description
One broad face of the stone is firmly incised with a disc and rectangle above a double disc symbol. The top of the disc is missing, as is much of the right-hand disc of the double disc symbol.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Ritchie & Ritchie 1982; Fraser 2008, no 87.1.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
