Torgorm
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Torgorm
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 12828
Site Number NH55SE 14
NGR NH 559 549
NGR Description NH c. 559 549
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12828
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Logie Wester
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Torgorm, Ross & Cromarty, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.51m, W 0.33m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH c 559 549
Present location: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery (INVMG 1937.41)
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing around 1880 and taken to the rockery in the garden of Moniack Castle.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This fragment is part of the right-hand portion of a symbol stone and is incised with the right-hand ends of two double-disc and Z-rod symbols. One is placed immediately above the other and the internal decoration of their surviving discs is different. The top disc has a concentric inner circle containing a large and a small disc, each with a dimple, while the lower disc has two concentric inner circles containing a cross.
Date: seventh century
References: ECMS pt 3, 106-7; Fraser 2008, no 115.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017.
NH55SE 14 559 549.
A fragment of a Class I 'Pictish' symbol stone, bearing parts of two double-disc and Z-rod symbols, found on Torgorm farm, and noted at Moniack Castle (NH 5543) in 1903, is now in Inverness Museum (Acc No: 937-41).
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; RCAMHS 1979; 1985.
Class I symbol stone bearing two double discs and Z-rods
A.Mack 1997 p.110
Field Visit (January 1978)
Torgorm, Symbol Stone NH c. 559 549 NH55SE 14
This fragment of a Class I 'Pictish' symbol stone bears parts of two double-disc and Z-rod symbols; it is now in Inverness Museum (INVMG 937-41).
RCAHMS 1979, visited January 1978
Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 106-7
