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MHG33686 - Ardjachie Pictish stone with cup marks beside Museum entrance - Tain

Summary

Cup marked pictish stone moved to current position from Ardjachie farm.

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Stone with symbols, re-located to beside entrance of Tain Museum. Carved flower design and L shape plus other parallel lines running diagonally across. Believed in some circles to be forgery as the flower type is unique. Rear of stone no designs - HAW 8/2004

Ardjachie Farm, Edderton, Ross& Cromarty, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: H 1.79m, W 0.65m, D 0.35m
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Place of discovery: NH 746 845
Present location: outside Tain Museum.
Evidence for discovery: uncovered during ploughing around 1960.
Present condition: broken and worn.
This irregular boulder was clearly chosen to be a symbol stone because it already bore a large number of prehistoric cupmarks. The incised symbols comprise a ‘wheel’-like disc with central hub and twelve spokes, carved above a plain L-shaped step symbol.
Date: seventh century.
References: DES 1971, 38-9; Fraser 2008, no 117.
Early Medieval Carved Stones Project, Compiled by A Ritchie 2017 <1>

(Note - see MHG7488 for original location and full record including Scottish Rock Art Project images. T. Blackie 12/4/24) <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 7802 8212 (6m by 6m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH78SE
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	TAIN

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