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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

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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

Activities

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.

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