Oxtro Description of stone
Event ID 1015701
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015701
Oxtro, Birsay, Orkney, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements:
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HY 2537 2678
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found acting as a cover slab for a short cist during excavation of Oxtro broch-mound in 1847. The cist was one of a cemetery overlying the demolished broch. Subsequently it was built into an outbuilding at Boardhouse Farm and attempts to locate it have failed.
Present condition:
Description
This stone was incised with an eagle, but it is not known whether this was part of a larger stone or whether it was a stone with a single symbol. The size of the stone as it survived is unknown.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Ritchie, J N G 2003, 121; Watters et al 1995, 2; Fraser 2008, no 170; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 4.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
