Description of stone

Event ID 1010063

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Carn Liath, Sutherland, carved stone

Measurements: H 0.57m, W 0.48, D 0.13m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NC 8704 0137

Present location: Dunrobin Museum, Dunrobin Castle.

Evidence for discovery: found during excavations of the broch and reported in 1871 by Joass (1890).

Present condition:

Description

The slab bears pecked concentric circles.

Date: could be prehistoric or early medieval.

References: Joass 1890, 105.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016