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Poolewe Description of Stone
Event ID 1021034
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1021034
Poolewe, Ross and Cromarty, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.45m, W 0.45m, D 0.11m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NG 8603 8096
Present location:
Evidence for discovery: found in 1992 in the circular burial-ground at Poolewe, which is likely to be early in date.
Present condition: very worn, with edge damage.
Description
This slender slab is incised on one broad face with a crescent and V-rod symbol, embellished with internal sunken dots, including groups of three in the tips of the crescent. The symbol spans the width of the slab, and it is so close to the top as it survives that there may well have been an upper symbol now broken away.
Date: seventh century.
References: Fraser 2008, no 125.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
