Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665002

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH87SE 4 8555 7471

(NH 8555 7471) Clach A' Charridh (NR) (Sculptured Stone)

OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907).

This symbol stone stands in a field on a hillside sloping towards the sea above the S side of the village of Shandwick, where burials took place in former times. Blown down c.1846 and broken into two pieces it has since been repaired and re-erected on a circular stepped base which conceals some of the sculpture at the bottom.

It is an upright rectangular cross-slab c. 9ft high by 3ft 3ins with sculptured relief on two faces.

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.

As described.

Visited by OS (I S S) 29 August 1972.

This symbol stone now lies within a steel framed glass case which is surrounded by a fence. The structure is to protect the stone from further erosion.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), January 1997.

Class II symbol stone showing a cross on the east face. On the reverse is seen a double-disc in a panel above an elephant, which is itself over a panel showing fighting swordsmen and a crossbowman.

A Mack 1997.