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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

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  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Longforgan (Perth And Kinross)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District City Of Dundee
  • Former County Perthshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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

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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

Reference (1997)

Class I symbol stone, bearing a double-disc.

A.Mack 1997 p.50

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