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Forres, 7 Saint Leonards Road, Rosebank
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Forres, 7 Saint Leonards Road, Rosebank
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Forres 2
Canmore ID 73810
Site Number NJ05NW 86
NGR NJ 0393 5880
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73810
- Council Moray
- Parish Forres
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Forres 2, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragments
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 0393 5880
Present location: Falconer Museum, Forres (1992-16).
Evidence for discovery: found in 1992, already broken into two, built into a garden wall in Forres.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
These two conjoining fragments form a small portion of a Pictish symbol stone, incised on one broad face with the right-hand portion of crescent and V-rod.
Date: seventh century
References: DES 1992, 39; Fraser 2008, no 157.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Forres 2, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragments
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 0393 5880
Present location: Falconer Museum, Forres (1992-16).
Evidence for discovery: found in 1992, already broken into two, built into a garden wall in Forres.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
These two conjoining fragments form a small portion of a Pictish symbol stone, incised on one broad face with the right-hand portion of crescent and V-rod.
Date: seventh century
References: DES 1992, 39; Fraser 2008, no 157.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
Field Visit (1992)
NJ05NW 86 0393 5880
A fragment of a Class I Pictish symbol stone, showing part of a crescent and V-rod, was found built into a garden wall. Now in Falconer Museum, Forres.
Sponsor: Moray District Council.
G King 1992.
Reference (1997)
(Forres 2). Class I symbol stone, showing a crescent and V-rod.
A Mack 1997.
