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Sands Of Evie
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Sands Of Evie
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 2183
Site Number HY32NE 31
NGR HY 3723 2640
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2183
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Evie And Rendall
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Sands of Evie, Evie & Rendall, Orkney, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.28m, W 0.23m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY c 377 265
Present location: The Orkney Museum, Kirkwall (OM 1976.233)
Evidence for discovery: found on the beach at the Sands of Evie near the broch of Gurness in 1967.
Present condition: broken and water-worn.
Description
This small fragment is part of a symbol stone and is incised with the lower portion of a mirror symbol. Part of the face of the mirror survives, along with the bi-partite handle, which has a double outline and consists of a triangle clasping the mirror and a ball terminal.
Date:
References: Ritchie, J N G 1969; Fraser 2008, no 174; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 7.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
HY32NE 31 3723 2640.
This fragment (0.8m by 0.23m and 0.09m), found on the Sands of Evie in 1967, bears a mirror symbol; it is now preserved in Tankerness House Museum, Kirkwall.
J N G Ritchie 1969; RCAMS 1985.
Class I symbol stone showing part of a mirror.
A Mack 1997
