Description of stone
Event ID 1010131
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010131
Langdale, Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 1.12m, W 0.69m, D 0.08m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NC c 6944
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found during digging at Langdale Farm, upright and with its top some 0.40m below ground surface.
Present condition:
Description
Though thin, this must have been a tall slab, the top of which had broken off before the fragment was found. It bore part of an incised arch symbol decorated by arcs and a spiral.
Date: seventh century.
References: Mackay 1906; Fraser 2008, no 145.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
