The Picts

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

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