Archaeology Notes

Event ID 660896

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH55NW 7 5493 5893.

A cup marked, Class I symbol stone, which had been used as a lintel over a doorway of the church built in 1801, was identified in 1880 and is now erected on a base in the churchyard opposite the entrance gateway. It is a rectangular slab of mica schist, 4'3" high by 1'8" wide by 8" thick, bearing on the front the double disc and Z-rod, and two crescent and V-rods; and on the back three circles and the crecent and V-rod as well as six cup marks.

J R Allen 1903.

As described above, this stone was located at NH 5493 5893 in Dingwall churchyard.

Visited by OS (W D J) 17 April 1963

No change.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989.

Class I symbol stone bearing, on the west face,a double-disc and Z-rod with crescents and V-rods at both the centre and the foot of the stone.

A Mack 1997