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Inverness Description of stone

Event ID 1017595

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017595

Inverness 2, Lochardill, Inverness-shire, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NH 665 438

Present location: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery

Evidence for discovery: found in an old dyke in the later nineteenth century and taken to Lochardill House. It was later taken to Stonifield House, and presented to Inverness Museum around 2000. Mack discusses the original location of the two Inverness bull stones (2007, 174-5).

Present condition: fractured and worn.

Description

The slab as it survives may be almost intact, with an incised bullock walking sedately to the right in the upper part of the stone. The animal is horned and has three spiral joints.

Date: seventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 103; Mack 2007, 174-5; Fraser 2008, no 114.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017

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