Clynekirkton
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Clynekirkton
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Clynekirkton Churchyard
Canmore ID 6460
Site Number NC80NE 17.01
NGR NC 8946 0607
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6460
- Council Highland
- Parish Clyne
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Clynekirkton 1 (St Aloyne?), Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.30m, W 0.48m to 0.58m, D 0.11m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NC 8945 0607
Present location: Dunrobin Museum (ARC 531), Dunrobin Castle.
Evidence for discovery: found in Clyne kirkyard in 1855 and taken to Dunrobin Museum in 1869.
Present condition: some damage to top corners of slab and flaking to lower symbol.
Description
An undressed tapering slab, this bears two symbols: a crescent and V-rod above a rectangle. An unusual feature of the crescent and V-rod is the group of three dots in the angle of the V.
Date: seventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 38-9; Fraser 2008, no 135.1.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NC80NE 17.01 8946 0607.
No. 1 Found in 1855 by Mr Muir in Clynekirkton Churchyard. It is of orange and red mottled medium grained sandstone, which is cracking along the bedding planes. It measures 1.33m long by 0.62m wide and is 0.13m thick, and bears the crescent and V-rod and rectangular symbols. Now in Dunrobin Museum (1855.1).
Information from R Jones 1980.
