Find Spot record MHG5033 - Findspot of symbol stone, Fiskavaig Bay

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Grid reference Centred NG 3300 3400 (6m by 6m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG33SW
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish BRACADALE

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NG33SW 3 33 34.

Found on the beach at Fiscavaig, Loch Bracadale, this stone is now in NMAS (IB 213); a slab of schist (0.9m by 0.5m and 0.25m thick), it is incised on one face with double disc and Z-rod symbols.
J G Callander 1927; RCAHMS 1928; 1985.

Class I symbol stone bearing a double disc and Z-rod with a crescent and V-rod.
A.Mack 1997 p.33

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  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Curle, C L. 1940. 'The chronology of the early christian monuments of Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 74 1939-40, p.60-117. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 60-117. 60-117.
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Radford, C A R. 1942. 'The early christian monuments of Scotland', Antiquity Vol. 16 1942, p.1-18. Antiquity. 1-18. 1-18.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Jackson, A. 1984. The symbol stones of Scotland: a social anthropological resolution to the problem of the Picts.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Mack, A. 1997. Field guide to the Pictish symbol stones. 33.
  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1928. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. . 149, No. 498.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Ritchie, J N G. 1985. Pictish symbol stones: a handlist 1985. 13.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Wainwright, F T (ed.). 1955. The problem of the Picts. 1st.
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Callander, J G. 1927. 'A symbol stone from Fiscavaig, Skye', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Vol 61 (1926-27), pp 241-3.

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Jan 15 2010 2:01PM

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