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Strathpeffer Description of stone
Event ID 1021032
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021032
Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 0.81m above ground, W 0.61m, D 0.25m
Stone type: blue gneiss
Place of discovery: NH 4845 5852
Present location: in situ in field.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in the mid nineteenth century. It stands on the edge of a terrace with a cairn of stones around it, but these may result from field clearance in the past. It was set in a concrete base in the twentieth century.
Present condition: good except for damage at the top right-hand corner, caused probably by its use as a sounding stone.
Description
Two large symbols have been heavily incised on one face of this stone: an ornamented arch symbol above an eagle walking to the right.
Date: seventh century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 108; ECMS pt 3, 61-2; Fraser 2008, no 129.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
