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Inverness
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Inverness
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Lochardill
Canmore ID 13529
Site Number NH64SE 46
NGR NH 665 438
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13529
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Inverness 2, Lochardill, Inverness-shire, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 665 438
Present location: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
Evidence for discovery: found in an old dyke in the later nineteenth century and taken to Lochardill House. It was later taken to Stonifield House, and presented to Inverness Museum around 2000. Mack discusses the original location of the two Inverness bull stones (2007, 174-5).
Present condition: fractured and worn.
Description
The slab as it survives may be almost intact, with an incised bullock walking sedately to the right in the upper part of the stone. The animal is horned and has three spiral joints.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 103; Mack 2007, 174-5; Fraser 2008, no 114.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Reference (1985)
Now at Stoneyfield House in the possession of Mrs Torrance.
RCAHMS 1985.
Desk Based Assessment
NH64SE 46 665 438.
A stone with an incised symbol of a bull, was found 'in an old dyke close to Provost Ross' house at Inverness' (NH 66524380), but was moved to the stables at Lochardill (c. NH 66 42).
J R Allen 1903.
(Also information from the Highland News and Football Times, 3 August 1979.)
Information from OS.
