Dores Description of stone

Event ID 1017588

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Dores 2, Inverness-shire, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.12m, W 0.09m, D 0.07m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: NH c 597 346

Present location: National Museums Scotland (X.IB 177)

Evidence for discovery: found in 1900 on the east shore of Loch Ness, where a burn enters the loch.

Present condition:

Description

This small fragment is incised on one face with key pattern, and it probably came from a cross-slab.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 517-18.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017