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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.