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Description of stone
Event ID 1010070
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010070
Clynemilton 2, Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.94, W 0.87m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NC 914069
Present location: Dunrobin Museum (ARC 529), Dunrobin Castle.
Evidence for discovery: none, but it is assumed that, like Clynemilton 1, it was found near the Clynemilton Burn on a terrace near the sea sometime before about 1850, and taken to the Museum in 1860.
Present condition: good.
Description
This slab is firmly incised with three symbols: a notched rectangle with Z-rod, and to its right a mirror with an elegantly twisted handle and a single-sided comb with decorative back.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 33; ECMS pt 3, 40-1; Fraser 2008, no 136.2.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
