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Inverallan Description of stone

Event ID 1037170

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1037170

Inverallan 1, Moray, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.06m, W 0.50m, D 0.14m

Stone type: blue slate

Place of discovery: NJ 0266 2602

Present location: set into a niche in the churchyard wall

Evidence for discovery: found around 1888 in the foundations of the ruined church of Inverallan and placed leaning against the churchyard wall

Present condition: severely weathered.

Description

This undressed slab is incised with a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle with Z-rod.

Date: seventh century.

References: Mitchell 1889; ECMS pt 3, 103-4; Fraser 2008, no 94.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.

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