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Date 18 November 1965
Event ID 1170426
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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NH66NE 12 6810 6902.
(NH 6810 6902) Clach a' Mhearlich (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Clach a' Mheirlich, or the "Thief's Stone" is a Class I (ie. probably 7th -9th century) symbol stone.
It is a sandstone pillar, 6ft x 1ft 6ins square, bearing on the front a 'step' symbol and on the left side what appears to be traces of a crescent symbol with, below, what could be either a pair of pincers or a 'tuning fork' symbol. Clach a' Mheirlich (ONB 1874). Scheduled (AMs Scot 1961, 37).
Information from OS (ES) 18 November 1965
(Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) 1874; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903).