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Littleferry Links

Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Site Name Littleferry Links

Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Alternative Name(s) Dunrobin Museum

Canmore ID 15340

Site Number NH89NW 2.01

NGR NH 814 965

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Golspie
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NH89NW 2.01 814 965

No. 1. A fragment of sandstone, of approximately square shape, found in 1872, 3 1/2 m W of Golspie, on the S side of Ferry Road, on a bare gravelly flat. It measures 7 1/2ins in length, 7 1/2ins in width, and 4 1/2ins in thickness, and is sculptured, with incised lines on one face, with two straight parallel lines and two others terminating in spiral curves in the centre, probably forming part of the rectangular symbol.

RCAHMS 1911.

This stone (0.20m x 0.19m x 0.09m) is in Dunrobin Museum No.11.

Information from R Jones, 1980.

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