Pool Description of stone
Event ID 1017199
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017199
Pool 1, Sanday, Orkney, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.76m, W 0.40m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 6194 3785
Present location: The Orkney Museum, Kirkwall (OM 1997.33)
Evidence for discovery: found during excavation in 1985 of a Pictish settlement, face down in use as a paving stone.
Present condition: worn.
Description
A natural undressed slab, this bears pecked ornament on one broad face: roughly delineated are a double-disc symbol and a curvilinear motif ending in a circle which may be part of an intended Z-rod.
Date: the archaeological context of the stone is radiocarbon dated to the mid sixth century.
References: Hunter 2007, 114-15; Fraser 2008, no 171; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 11.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
