Covesea Description of stone
Event ID 1037132
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Covesea, Moray, Pictish symbol rock carvings
Measurements:
Stone type: yellow sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 1750 7072
Present location: in situ on walls of cave.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in the mid nineteenth century on the cave walls close to the two entrance passages.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
There are seven groups of incised Pictish symbols, including fish, crescent and V-rod, pentacle, triple oval, step, rectangle, disc and rectangle (‘mirror case’), flower, and mirror.
Date: sixth or seventh century
References: Stuart 1867, xciv; ECMS pt 3, 129-31; Benton 1931; Fraser 2008, no 154.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
