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Westfield, Falkland
Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Site Name Westfield, Falkland
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone(S) (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Westfield Farm
Canmore ID 29871
Site Number NO20NW 13
NGR NO 2384 0732
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/29871
- Council Fife
- Parish Falkland
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Westfield Farm 1, Strathmiglo, Fife, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.74m, W 0.42m, D 0.16m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO 2384 0732
Present location: Laing Museum, Newburgh.
Evidence for discovery: found built into a byre at Westfield Farm and taken first to Falkland Palace and thence to the Laing Museum.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use and some surface damage.
Description
One broad face of the stone is firmly incised with a disc and rectangle above a double disc symbol. The top of the disc is missing, as is much of the right-hand disc of the double disc symbol.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Ritchie & Ritchie 1982; Fraser 2008, no 87.1.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Westfield Farm 2, Falkland, Fife, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.50m, 0.41m, D 0.15m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO 2384 0732
Present location: Laing Museum, Newburgh.
Evidence for discovery: found built into a byre at Westfield Farm and taken first to Falkland Palace and thence to the Laing Museum.
Present condition: trimmed for re-use and some surface damage.
Description
This stone is incised with part of a notched rectangle symbol and two concentric arcs which could have belonged to a large mirror symbol.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Ritchie & Ritchie 1982; Fraser 2008, no 87.2.
NO20NW 13.00 2384 0732
NO 237 073. Two cut-down symbol stones have been found built in to Westfield Farm steading. One has a short-handled and a long-handled 'mirror-case' at right angles to one another; the other a broad pocked 'tuning-fork' and two concentric arcs (?'spectacle' symbol). They will be exhibited at Falkland Palace.
R B K Stevenson 1971.
Field Visit (12 April 1972)
NO 2384 0732:- the stones were found when altering one of the byres on the farm, and are as described. At the moment they lie beside Mr Dourie's (of Westfield) garage, and no plans have yet been made to exhibit them at Falkland Palace.
Visited by OS (DWR) 12 April 1972.
Reference (1985)
These stones have been moved to Falkland Palace Museum.
J N G Ritchie 1985.
Reference (1997)
Two Class I symbol stones showing :
Westfield 1: Mirror case over a double-disc.
Westfield 2: Divided rectangle to the left of the remains of a mirror.
A Mack 1997.
Note (3 July 2008)
The two stones are now on display in the Laing Museum, Newburgh.
Information from RCAHMS (IFr), 3 July 2008.
