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The Hilton of Cadboll stone in the National Museum of Scotland. The back of the cross-slab on location in Easter Ross. This is the reconstruction by Barry Grove. The Hilton of Cadboll Stone is a Class II Pictish stone discovered at Hilton of Cadboll, on the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross, Scotland and now in the National Museum of Scotland.
The Class I Dunnichen Stone, with Pictish symbols including the "double disc and Z-rod" at centre, and "mirror and comb" at the bottom.. The purpose and meaning of the stones are only slightly understood, and the various theories proposed for the early Class I symbol stones, those that are considered to mostly pre-date the spread of Christianity to the Picts, are essentially speculative.
The stone is 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in) high, 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in) wide and 0.36 metres (1 ft 2 in) deep, and is carved from pink granite. [3] It bears incised Pictish symbols on two adjacent faces, a notched rectangle and z rod and mirror case on one and an eagle and crescent and v rod on another. [4]
The site is notable for a carved Pictish stone located near the entrance to the fort, one of only a handful of such stones found outside the core Pictish heartland of North-East Scotland. A 2012 archaeological investigation found evidence of feasting and high-status metalworking at the site, and what has been interpreted as a constructed ...
In Pictish Scotland the cross-slab, a flat stone with a cross in relief or incised on an essentially rectangular stone, developed as a hybrid form of the Pictish stone and the high cross. The cross is normally only on one side of the stone and the remaining areas of the stone may be covered with interlace or other decoration.
Aberlemno 1, 3 and 5 are located in recesses in the dry stone wall at the side of the road in Aberlemno (grid reference).Aberlemno 2 is found in the Kirkyard, 300 yards south of the roadside stones.(grid reference) In recent years, bids have been made to move the stones to an indoor location to protect them from weathering, but this has met with local resistance and the stones are currently ...
The second stone is defaced, but has indications of a similar highlander figure with an animal at its feet, most likely a dog. There are traces of interlacing around it. The third stone is also defaced, but has traces of a clergy figure with a staff. All three of these stones are found in a small enclosure near the church. [7]
Rear of stone, showing sculpted figures and symbols. The cross-slab was found in the bed of the Eassie Burn, near Eassie Church by Rev. Cordiner, c. 1786. [7] From there it was moved to the churchyard, [10] where it stood for over a century, until the 1960s when a purpose-built building with viewing windows was built for it within the structure of the ruined church. [2]