Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665089

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH98SW 15 9151 8402.

(NH 9151 8402) Sculptured Stone (NR) (Site of)

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

The site of an ancient sculptured stone, one half of which now lies in the graveyard; the remainder is said to have been thrown into a grave and covered up.

Name Book 1872.

This stone lay in Tarbat churchyard until about the middle of the 19th century, when it was removed to the ground of Invergordon Castle. It is the lower portion of an upright rectangular cross-slab, 2'1" high x 2'8" wide, sculptured partly with incised lines and partly in relief on one face. The border of scroll foliage is almost an exact counterpart of that on the Hilton of Cadboll stone (NH87NE 7), and there is little doubt that both are the work of the same school of design. Listed as Class II, Tarbat no. 1.

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.

Now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, IB 190)

RCAHMS 1979; 1985.

Class II symbol stone - fragment of a cross slab - on the reverse is a mounted figure to the left of a vertical arrangement of crescent and V-rod,tuning fork and serpent and Z-rod.

A.Mack 1997 p.39