Burrian Description of stone
Event ID 1015592
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015592
Burrian, Knowe of Burrian, Harray, Orkney, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.10m +, W 0.54m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 3082 1680
Present location: The Orkney Museum, Kirkwall (OM 1655)
Evidence for discovery: found during amateur excavation in 1936, re-used at the entrance to a well in a possible broch-mound.
Present condition: broken into two fragments, now cemented together.
Description
This slab is incised on one broad face with three symbols: at the top an eagle, above an ornamented crescent and V-rod, and below on the left is a mirror with a double-ball handle.
Date: seventh century.
References: Ritchie 1997, 44; Fraser 2008, no 168; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 3.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
