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Finlarig

Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Site Name Finlarig

Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Alternative Name(s) Ballintomb

Canmore ID 139359

Site Number NH92NE 32

NGR NH 99466 25352

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
  • Former County Morayshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Finlarig, Moray, Pictish symbol stone

Measurements: H 1.10m, W 0.60m

Stone type: granite

Place of discovery: NJ c 00 24 NH 9946 2535

Present location: built into the garden wall at Finlarig.

Evidence for discovery: found on Ballintomb farm sometime before 1998.

Present condition: very weathered.

Description

This slab is incised with a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod, both with internal ornament including spirals within the rectangle.

Date: seventh century.

References: Fraser 2008, no 89 (Ballintomb).

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018

Archaeology Notes

NH92NE 32 NH 99466 25352

A Pictish symbol stone, found on Ballintomb farm (see NJ02SW 36), is now built into the face of the garden wall of Finlarig farmhouse. It bears a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod.

Information from I Fisher and A Mack, 1998.

This granite Pictish symbol stone, which measures 1.1m in height by 0.6m in breadth, is set into the inner face of the wall on the NE side of the farmhouse garden at Finlarig (NH92NE 28). The heavily-weathered SW face bears a crescent and V-rod above a notched rectangle and Z-rod.

Visited by RCAHMS (TIP, AGCH) 12 October 2006.

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