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Kirtomy
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Kirtomy
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 6412
Site Number NC76SW 17
NGR NC 74 63
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6412
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Kirtomy, Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements:
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NC 743635
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: sometime before 1890, a stone bearing the carving of a serpent was built into the wall of a barn at Kirtomy. The face with the serpent is presumably within the wall, as several searches have failed to find it.
Present condition:
Description
No details are known other than that it was carved with a serpent.
Date:
References: ECMS pt 3, 45; Fraser 2008, no 144.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NC76SW 17 74 63.
A Class 1 symbol stone - 'a stone with a serpent on it' - previously unrecorded, is reported by Miss MacGregor, sister of the minister of Farr, who says 'The stone has, I think, been built into the wall of a barn at Kirtomy (NC 74 63) from whence it could not be taken without trouble and expense. There is a man in Kirtomy named George MacKay who thinks he knows where the stone is to be found. I have never seen it.' In spite of the last statement Miss MacGregor made a sketch of the stone and sent it to Rev Dr Joass of Golspie.
J Anderson and J R Allen 1903; Information contained in letter from Miss MacGregor to J R Allen, 17 December 1890.
The stone was not located during field investigation.
Visited by OS (J L D) 28 April 1960.
Previous field report confirmed.
Visited by OS (R L) 7 July 1971.
Class I symbol stone.