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Forteviot 7 Description of stone

Event ID 1039411

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1039411

Forteviot 7, Perthshire, stone basin

Measurements: H

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NO 0514 1747

Present location: at Forteviot parish church.

Evidence for discovery:

Present condition: fractured but complete.

Description

This is an irregularly shaped natural boulder, into which a hemispherical hollow has been cut, about 0.24m in diameter and 0.14m deep.

Date range: early medieval or later.

Primary references: Aitchison 2006, 131-2.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018

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