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Burghead carved stones Description of collection
Event ID 1085686
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085686
Burghead
The Morayshire promontory of Burghead was the location of a great Pictish fort, and the surviving sculpture implies that it had its own church and burial ground. The earliest are six blocks of stone each incised with a powerful image of a bull (nos 1-6), which are associated with the fort itself, as may be the ‘celtic head’ said to have been found in the great well in the lower enclosure of the fort. Sadly the sculpture to be associated with the church is a very fragmentary glimpse of what must have been an impressive collection of cross-slabs and at least one shrine-chest.
A Ritchie 2019
