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Finlanrig
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Finlanrig
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Finlarig; Muckrach; Chapel Park; Findlarig
Canmore ID 317886
Site Number NH92NE 3.01
NGR NH 99113 25386
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/317886
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Morayshire
Findlarig, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 1.09m, W 0.43m, D 0.06m
Stone type: mica schist
Place of discovery: NH c 9909 2538
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB.11).
Evidence for discovery: found sometime prior to 1865 during digging on the west side of the circular enclosure round an early chapel.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This fragment comes from the left-hand side of a symbol stone, incised with parts of a rectangle and Z-rod above a crescent and V-rod.
Date: seventh century
References: ECMS pt 3, 101; Fraser 2008, no 92.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
External Reference (1980)
The fragment measuring 1.15m x 0.43m x 0.09m, is obviously part of a larger symbol stone. The face is incised with the remains of a crescent and V-rod symbol. Above this is the bottom of a Z-rod symbol possibly intersecting a rectangle. In the RMS (NMAS) Accession no. IB 11.
Information from R Jones 1980.
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone bearing a divided rectangle and Z-rod above a crescent and V-rod.
A.Mack 1997 p.32.
