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Forres 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1036942
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036942
Forres 2, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragments
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 0393 5880
Present location: Falconer Museum, Forres (1992-16).
Evidence for discovery: found in 1992, already broken into two, built into a garden wall in Forres.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
These two conjoining fragments form a small portion of a Pictish symbol stone, incised on one broad face with the right-hand portion of crescent and V-rod.
Date: seventh century
References: DES 1992, 39; Fraser 2008, no 157.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
