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Dunkeld, Dunkeld Cathedral
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Dunkeld, Dunkeld Cathedral
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Dunkeld No. 1; Dunkeld House; King's Park
Canmore ID 27158
Site Number NO04SW 1.02
NGR NO 0237 4259
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27158
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Dunkeld And Dowally
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Dunkeld 1, Perthshire, architectural fragment?
Measurements: L 1.1m, W 0.34m, H 0.57m
Stone type: grey sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 0104 4273
Present location: in the tower at Dunkeld Cathedral.
Evidence for discovery: found in the grounds of Dunkeld House in the mid nineteenth century, and moved around 1946 into the base of the tower at Dunkeld Cathedral.
Present condition: good.
Description
This is a substantial triangular block of stone, on one face of which, at the right-hand end, is incised a man on horseback carrying a spear and drinking from a horn. On the top face of the stone is a sunken equal-armed cross with expanded terminals, which was recorded by RCAHMS in 2012.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 16; ECMS pt 3, 284-5; RCAHMS 1994, 96.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NO04SW 1.02 0237 4259
(Area NO 010 428) A symbol stone, depicting a man on horseback, was situated within the ground of Dunkeld House (NO01044273). It is a slab of grey sandstone, 3'6" long by 1'9" wide, with an incised figure on one face.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903
Field Visit (24 February 1971)
This stone was removed c.1946 from NO01044273 (J McLean, Dunkeld House) and is now displayed in the tower of Dunkeld Cathedral.
Visited by OS (JP) 24 February 1971.
Field Visit (4 December 1992)
This stone was formerly situated in the grounds of Dunkeld House (NO04SW 59), at NO 0104 4273, but is now held at the cathedral, in the ground floor of the tower. It measures 1.1m in length, 0.34m in thickness and about 0.57m in height, 0.2m of which is now concealed by a wooden plinth. Towards the right edge of the stone there is the incised figure of a horseman carrying a spear and drinking from a horn. Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 4 December 1992. J Stuart 1867; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.
