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Commissioners Field Meeting 2007
Date 2007
Event ID 1019545
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019545
The Ballintomb and Inverallan stones both bear a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod whilst Findlarig displays the same two symbols in reverse order, making an interesting sub-group. Unlike the others, Inverallan is poorly carved, its undecorated crescent being asymmetrical and rather angular but the crescent on the Findlarig fragment is most noteworthy as, when reconstructed it measures 760mm from tip to tip, more than twice the size of the others and certainly one of the largest symbols to appear on any class I stone. One could interpret this outsized symbol as having particular emphasis placed uponit, but equally, the sculptor may just have been utilising the available area, in this instance making the most of what was clearly a wide slab.
Information from ‘Commissioners’ Field Meeting 2007'.
