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Description of stone
Event ID 1010134
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010134
Little Ferry Links 2, Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.43m, W 0.28m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 814966
Present location: Dunrobin Museum (ARC 543), Dunrobin Castle.
Evidence for discovery: a surface find made in 1874.
Present condition: weathered and pitted.
Description
The incised carving on this fragment is badly damaged but appears to represent a small plain notched crescent above a crescent and V-rod. Mack suggests that the rod-end is the right-hand rod of a vertical crescent and that the arc to the right is perhaps part of a mirror.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt3, 45-6; Fraser 2008, no 146.2.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
