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Description of stone
Event ID 1010067
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010067
Clynekirkton 2 (St Aloyne?), Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.22m, W 0.43m, D 0.06m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NC 8945 0607
Present location: Dunrobin Museum (ARC 537), Dunrobin Castle.
Evidence for discovery: found in Clyne kirkyard in 1868 and taken to Dunrobin Museum in 1869.
Present condition: the edges of the slab are both broken and trimmed, and there is severe flaking to the upper symbol.
Description
One broad face of the slab bears the remains of three incised symbols. The uppermost is an unusually large and ornate rectangle, set immediately above but not touching a crescent and V-rod, and close below the crescent a mirror symbol. The decoration of all three symbols makes extensive use of fine parallel line infilling, and the rectangle and crescent and V-rod both display arcs and spirals.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt3, 38-9: Fraser 2008, no 135.2.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
