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Finlarig Description of stone

Event ID 1037140

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Finlarig, Moray, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.10m, W 0.60m

Stone type: granite

Place of discovery: NJ c 00 24 NH 9946 2535

Present location: built into the garden wall at Finlarig.

Evidence for discovery: found on Ballintomb farm sometime before 1998.

Present condition: very weathered.

Description

This slab is incised with a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod, both with internal ornament including spirals within the rectangle.

Date: seventh century.

References: Fraser 2008, no 89 (Ballintomb).

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018

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