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Longforgan
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Longforgan
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 31715
Site Number NO32NW 14
NGR NO 306 299
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31715
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Longforgan (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Perthshire
Longforgan 1, Perthshire, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.20m, W 0.25m, D 0.11m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO c 306 299
Present location: The McManus Museum and Art Gallery, Dundee.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in a field in 1966.
Present condition: broken.
Description
One edge of this fragment appears to have been dressed for re-use. roughly pecked on it is a simple double disc symbol, of which part of one disc is missing.
Date: seventh century.
References: DES 1966, 38; Fraser 2008, no 188.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Artefact Recovery (1966)
NO32NW 14 306 299.
NO 306 299. Symbol Stone, Longforgan: During agricultural operations in the field adjoining the site of souterrain NO32NW 1, there was turned up a fragment of red sandstone on which was incised the double disc symbol. The fragment is roughly rectangular, measuring 10 by 8 ins and 4 ins thick. One end of the stone has been dressed, presumably for later re-use, and this has removed about half of one of the discs. The double disc has been crudely incised and, in its present state, measures 5 ins long, the discs being 2 1/2 ins in diameter.
D B Taylor 1966