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Ardross
Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Site Name Ardross
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Stittenham
Canmore ID 13738
Site Number NH67SE 12
NGR NH 650 743
NGR Description NH c. 650 743
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13738
- Council Highland
- Parish Rosskeen
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Ardross 1, Stittenham, Ross & Cromarty, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.31m, W 0.49m, D 0.13m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 650 743
Present location: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery (INVMG 00.209)
Evidence for discovery: found sometime before 1863 built into a wall at Stittenham.
Present condition: broken but carving clear except where flaking has occurred.
Description
This fragment is incised with a finely delineated wolf, padding along towards the right. Three of his four paws are missing along with much of his tail, but the body shows scroll joints and ear, rounded eye, and jaw open to show his tongue.
Date: seventh century
References: ECMS pt 3, 55-6; Fraser 2008, no 118.1.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Ardross 2, Stittenham, Ross & Cromarty, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.34m, W 0.32m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 650 743
Present location: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery (INVMG 00.208)
Evidence for discovery: found sometime before 1863 built into a wall at Stittenham.
Present condition: broken but carving clear except where flaking has occurred.
Description
This fragment is incised with a beast head, facing right, lacking only the lower part of its body. It has a scrolled chest, two pricked ears, large oval eye and long slender muzzle.
Date: seventh century
References: ECMS pt 3, 55-6; Fraser 2008, no 118.2.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
In Inverness Museum, two class I symbol stones showing:
Ardross 1 : a wolf
Ardross 2 : a deer's head
A Mack 1997.
Note (1979)
Stittenham, Symbol-stone fragments NH c.650 743 NH67SE 12
Two sandstone fragments, bearing incised representations of a deer and wolf in Pictish style, were found 'built into an old wall at Stittenham before 1891. Often known as the Ardross 'wolf' and 'horse', they are preserved in Inverness Museum (INVMG 00.208-9).
RCAHMS 1979
(Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 55-6)
