Garbeg
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Garbeg
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Drumnadrochit
Canmore ID 12634
Site Number NH53SW 15.01
NGR NH 5110 3222
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12634
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Garbeg, Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.49m, W 0.95m, D 0.05m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 5110 3222
Present location: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery (INVMG 1955.30)
Evidence for discovery: found in 1974 just beneath the turf in the centre of a ditched circular cairn in a cemetery of round and rectangular platform cairns at Garbeg.
Present condition: broken and incomplete.
Description
The fragment appears to be the top left corner of a symbol stone, with two intact edges. It is finely incised with part of an ornamented crescent and V-rod symbol, and there was clearly a second symbol below, represented by a curving design which could be the ‘lappit’ of a Pictish beast symbol. The rest of the slab was not found when the cairn was excavated.
Date: seventh century.
References: Wedderburn & Grime 1984; Fraser 2008, no 110.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (4 September 1997)
The barrow from which this symbol stone was recovered lies at the N end of the square barrow cemetery (NH53SW 15.00), at NH 5110 3226.
(URQ97 210)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 4 September 1997
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone showing a crescent and V-rod with ? an elephant's antenna.
A Mack 1997
Desk Based Assessment
NH53SW 15.1 5110 3222
'This fragment found during the excavation of a small cairn in 1974 is now in Inverness Museum (Accession no 974.75); a thin slab of sandstone, it bears a fragmentary crescent and V-rod.'
Information from OS.
RCAHMS 1985; L M M Wedderburn and D M Grime 1975.
