Description of stone

Event ID 1010125

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010125

Kintradwell 2, Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone fragment

Measurements: H 0.84m, W 0.38m, D 0.10m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NC 9316 0838

Present location: Dunrobin Museum (ARC 533), Dunrobin Castle.

Evidence for discovery: found in 1873 close to the railway.

Present condition: broken and pitted with solution holes.

Description

There are parts of two symbols incised on this fragment: the S symbol, which has a decorated median band, and the triple disc.

Date: seventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 43-4; Fraser 2008, no 143.2.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016