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Description of stone

Event ID 1010113

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010113

Dunrobin, Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.12m, W 0.58m, D 0.13m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NC 8494 0057

Present location: Dunrobin Museum (ARC 532), Dunrobin Castle.

Evidence for discovery: found in 1854 re-used as a cover slab (with the carved face uppermost) for one of two long cists located near Dunrobin Castle.

Present condition: good.

Description

This slab bears four finely incised Pictish symbols. At the top is a nicely detailed salmon, beneath is a tuning fork and below that a mirror with a double-sided comb close beside it on the right. The central rib of the comb is decorated with hatched lines.

Date: seventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 42; Close-Brooks 1980, 343-4; Fraser 2008, no 138.

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