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Description of stone
Event ID 1009946
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1009946
Westfield Farm 2, Falkland, Fife, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.50m, 0.41m, D 0.15m
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
This stone is incised with part of a notched rectangle symbol and two concentric arcs which could have belonged to a large mirror symbol.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Ritchie & Ritchie 1982; Fraser 2008, no 87.2.
