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Field Visit

Date 20 May 1914

Event ID 1105425

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105425

Symbol Stone, Clach Ard, Tote.

Some 5 miles north-west of Portree and ½ mile north of Skeabost Bridge, in the township of Tote, 20 feet from the north side of the road to Tote Lodge, is a sculptured standing stone known as Clach Ard. It occupies a rather precarious position near the edge of a gravel pit and faces the south. It is an irregular five-sided prism and measures 4 feet 5 inches in height and 1 foot 7 inches across its southern aspect. On this face three symbols are incised, the crescent and broken rod with floriated ends occupying the top, the spectacle ornament and zigzag rod with ends also floriated placed longitudinally on the stone below it, and the mirror and comb symbol near the base. The symbols, with the exception of the mirror and comb, are fairly distinct, but the ornamentation in the discs of the spectacle ornament and crescent is nearly obliterated. It seems to have consisted of small circles with a round dot in the centre. (Fig. 263.)

RCAHMS 1928, visited 20 May 1914.

OS map: Skye xxiii (unnoted).

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Symbol stone, Clach Ard, Skye.
Symbol stone, Clach Ard, Skye.Symbol stone, Clach Ard, Skye.

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