The cross face has panels of interlace and fantastic figures and on the reverse is a mounted figure to the left of a double-disc above a step symbol.
It meaures 5’9″ high by 3’4″ at base tapering to 2’9″ at the top by 5″ thick.
(This slab is so like those from Aberlemno (NO 522 555) only 1/2 mile away, that it must have come from there.)
It had apparently been used as a slab for the kitchen floor.
Class I symbol stone bearing a stag above a rectangle
The symbol stone found in digging the knoll called Cnoc-an-Fruich, a place near Grantown. It is a slab of mica schist of rectangular shape 4ft by 10 inches by 9 inches thick, incised on one face.
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Grandtully Castle
Grandtully Castle is located to the west of the settlement of Grandtully in Perth and Kinross. A former stronghold of the Stewarts, the castle dates from the 15th century with later additions.
Glenbuchat Castle
16th century Z plan tower house built by John Gordon from random rubble and was built in a Z-shape with four turrets. It was owned by the Gordons until 1738, when it was forfeited by John Gordon for his Jacobite sympathies
Class II symbol stone.
The cross on face has been destroyed. On the reverse are a mounted female figure accompanied by other mounted figures,musicians and animals in a detailed hunting scene.
A mirror and comb lie to the left and are surmounted by a crescent and V-rod :a double-disc and Z-rod are seen in a frame above.
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Details from the Class 1 symbol stone from the Knowe of Burrian in Harray, now on display at the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall.
This stone, datable to the 6th – 7th centuries, was discovered in 1936 during a partial excavation in a ruined passageway of what is probably a Broch. It is a rectangular flagstone and shows the incised symbols of an eagle, crescent and V-Rod and a mirror
This sculptured stone slab was found at Bullion near Dundee while making the new by-pass road. It is 6’2″ long, 2’5″ broad and 5 3/4″ thick, and is of red sandstone.
On one face is the figure of a bearded man on horseback, carrying a sword and circular shield, and drinking out of an ox horn.
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Dalhousie Castle
Originally built in the 13th C. and unsuccessfully besieged by King henry IV of England in 1400. It was extended in distinctive pink sandstone around 1450 and further enlarged in 1633 to form a Renaissance house for Lord Ramsay, the Earl of Dalhousie
