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A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. ... Pictish Symbol stones have been found throughout Scotland ...
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 well-known Pictish symbols found on standing stones and other artefacts have defied attempts at translation over the centuries. Pictish art can be classed as "Celtic" and later as Insular. [68] Irish poets portrayed their Pictish counterparts as very much like themselves. [69]
Some of the more well-known Pictish stones are found in Aberlemno, Monifieth, and Kirriemuir, on the east side of Scotland, and are dated from the 7th to 8th centuries. [10] On the westside of the country, some younger stones, from the 14th to sixteenth centuries, were found in three areas: Luss, Inchcailloch, and Loch Lomond, and Glendaruel.
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 Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones are a series of Class II and III Pictish stones found in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Their existence points to Kirriemuir being an important ecclesiastical centre in the late first millennium AD.
The Bullion Stone is a late carved Pictish stone, which is unusual in containing a figure; it dates to c. 900–950. [1] It was discovered in 1933 at Bullion field, Invergowrie, during the construction of a road and is now located in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The image on the stone is unique amongst Pictish stones discovered thus far.
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]