Desk Based Assessment
Event ID 662332
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
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NH64SE 25 6567 4134
(NH 6567 4134) Boar's Stone {NR} (Sculptured)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906).
See also NH64SE 64.
Knocknagael Boar Stone: A roughly shaped slab. At the top is incised the mirror-case symbol and below the figure of a wild boar. The round part of the mirror case is ornamented with a circle and a central dot and the boar has spiral curves on the body.
V G Childe and W D Simpson 1954.
Full description of Stone. Height 6' 9"; breadth 7' 2"; thickness 1' 1 1/2". Metric dimensions - 2m x 2.2m x 0.31m.
W Jolly 1882; J Stuart 1856; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; D Butler 1926.
Information from OS.