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Dingwall Churchyard

Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Site Name Dingwall Churchyard

Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Canmore ID 12820

Site Number NH55NW 7

NGR NH 54943 58947

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Digital Images

Digital image of sculptured stone at Dingwall. Allen and Anderson, 1903, p.57, fig. 55.
Digital image of sculptured stone at Dingwall. Allen and Anderson, 1903, p.57, fig. 55.View of face of Pictish symbol stone, Dingwall churchyard.View of pictish carved stone (with scale).View of pictish symbol stone (with scale).Scanned ink drawing: two faces of Dingwall Pictish symbol stoneDingwall Churchyard, NH55NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView of rear face of stone showing pictish symbols (B&W)View of front face of stone showing pictish symbols (B&W)Detail of carved crescent on wall of caveView of pictish symbol stone.View of front face of stone showing pictish symbolsDingwall Churchyard, NH55NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoDetail of carved crescent on wall of caveView of pictish symbol stone.General view of symbol stone in churchyard from south.Pictish symbol stone standing in kirkyard. View of reverse, showing three circles, crescent and V-rod, and cup-marks.
Half-plate glass negative.Pictish symbol stone standing in kirkyard. View of face, showing double-disc and Z-rod, and two crescent and V-rods.
Half-plate glass negative.View of reverse of Pictish symbol stone, Dingwall churchyard.Dingwall Churchyard, NH55NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoDingwall Churchyard, NH55NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView of rear face of stone showing pictish symbolsAn oblique aerial view of Dingwall, Easter Ross, looking SW.Dingwall Churchyard, NH55NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoDingwall Churchyard, NH55NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Dingwall
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.30m above ground level, W 0.51m, D 0.20m

Stone type: mica schist

Place of discovery: NH 5493 5893

Present location: in the churchyard at Dingwall.

Evidence for discovery: identified by W C Joass in 1880, when it was in re-use as a lintel over a doorway in the 1803 church. It was removed and set in a stone base in the churchyard near the entrance.

Present condition: very weathered on both carved faces, broken at the top (base hidden).

Description

This was originally a prehistoric cup-marked stone bearing a number of cupmarks on both broad faces, which was later re-used as a symbol stone. It is incised on one broad face with three open circles above a crescent and V-rod and on the other broad face with a double disc and Z-rod above two crescents and V-rods arranged one above the other.

Date: seventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 56-7; Fraser 2008, no 120.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017

Archaeology Notes

NH55NW 7 5493 5893.

A cup marked, Class I symbol stone, which had been used as a lintel over a doorway of the church built in 1801, was identified in 1880 and is now erected on a base in the churchyard opposite the entrance gateway. It is a rectangular slab of mica schist, 4'3" high by 1'8" wide by 8" thick, bearing on the front the double disc and Z-rod, and two crescent and V-rods; and on the back three circles and the crecent and V-rod as well as six cup marks.

J R Allen 1903.

As described above, this stone was located at NH 5493 5893 in Dingwall churchyard.

Visited by OS (W D J) 17 April 1963

No change.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989.

Class I symbol stone bearing, on the west face,a double-disc and Z-rod with crescents and V-rods at both the centre and the foot of the stone.

A Mack 1997

Activities

Field Visit (September 1978)

Dingwall, Symbol Stone NH 549 589 NH55NW 7

A Class I 'Pictish' symbol stone, which stands in front of Dingwall Parish Church, bears double disc, crescent, circle, Z- and V-rod decoration, and six cup-marks.

RCAHMS 1979, September 1978

(Allen and Anderson, 1 903, iii, 56-7)

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