Field Visit

Date 16 August 1911

Event ID 887669

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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14. Sculptured rock.

Besides its vitrified character, the fort on Trusty 's Hill (No. 13, NX55NE 2) is remarkable for the presence of certain sculptured symbols, usually associated with the early Celtic church, on the north face of the most southerly of the two projecting rocks between which has passed the approach to the summit. The symbols (RCAHMS 1914, fig. 11), are deeply incised, and are as follows:- in the upper left-hand corner the double - disc ornament traversed by the Z –shaped fioriated rod; to the right, and separated by a natural fissure, a lacustrine monster ; and immediately below it a heart-shaped figure with incurvation terminating in spirals and surmounted with a conical spike; at the left-hand lower corner a hum an mask wit h two horns ending in spiral curves on the top of it. An iron grill has been placed over the carvings for their protection.

Visited by RCAHMS 16 August 1911

See Early Christ. Mon., pt, iii, p. 477 (illus.).