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Desk Based Assessment
Event ID 658752
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/658752
NG44NW 1 4210 4908.
(NG 4210 4908) Clach Ard (NAT) Clach Ard (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904); OS 1"map, 7th Series.
Clach Ard occupies a precarious position near the edge of a gravel pit and faces South. An irregular five-sided prism, it measures 4ft 5ins in height and 1ft 7ins across its S aspect. On this face three symbols are incised, the crescent and broken rod with floriated ends occupying the top, the spectacle ornament and zig-zag 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 of 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 (RCAHMS 1928). Shown on distribution map and dated to 6-7th century by Curle (1940), but see Radford (1942) and Stevenson (1955) who criticize this paper. Stevenson is inclined to date these stones slightly later, i.e. 7-8th century.
Information from OS.
RCAHMS 1928; C L Curle 1940; C R Radford 1942; R B K Stevenson 1955.
