Kintradwell Links
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Kintradwell Links
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Kintradwell 5
Canmore ID 6942
Site Number NC90NW 13
NGR NC 9298 0794
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6942
- Council Highland
- Parish Loth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Kintradwell 5, Sutherland, Pictish symbol stone?
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Stone type:
Place of discovery: NC 9298 0794
Present location: lost. It was said to have been deposited in Dunrobin Museum, but the museum’s collection began two years later than the discovery of the stone.
Evidence for discovery: found as a result of coastal erosion around 1852.
Present condition:
Description
No details are known but it is said to have been incised with symbols.
Date:
References: OS Name Book 1873, vol 2, 8; Fraser 2008, no 143.5.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
NC90NW 13 9298 0794
(NC 9298 0794) Symbol Stone found AD 1852 (NAT).
OS 6" map, 1964.
See also NC90NW 15.
In the immediate vicinity of where stone coffins were discovered, a stone with incised Pictish symbols was unearthed by a strong gale of wind about AD 1852. This stone is deposited in the museum at Dunrobin Castle.
Name Book 1873.
This symbol stone was not located in Dunrobin Castle Museum, the only reference to one from near Kintradwell Broch, being No 7 (see NC90NW 15).
Visited by OS (W D J), 3 April 1962.
Kintradwell 5. Class I symbol stone (lost) - symbols not specified.
A Mack 1997.
