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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