Golspie Stone
The Golspie Stone is a Pictish symbol stone of Class II with symbols and Oghamschrift which since 1868 in Dunrobin Museum in Dunrobin Castle in Golspie in the Highlands in Scotland stands.
It is a rectangular slab of purple sandstone , about 1.8 meters high, 80 centimeters at the base, 60 centimeters wide and 15 centimeters thick at the top, with a cross carved in relief on the front, surrounded by panels of wattle (English interlacing). The back bears the incised symbols. An Ogham script is cut on the upper and right edge. The symbols consist of a double-sided decorated rectangle, a " Pictish Beast ", an armed man with a wolf / dog, the fish, the Pictish flower, the crescent moon, the double, V-rod and Z-rod as well as a pair Snakes.
The original location for a Christian cross plate from the 8th – 9th centuries. Century would be a contemporary church. The only one known in the area is Kilmailie. But the stone was in the Golspie cemetery from 1780 to 1856. An inscription that has defaced the obverse reads: " This is the grave of Robert Gordon, eldest son of Alex Gordon of Sutherland, " apparently referring to a member of the Dunrobin family; between 1514 and 1766. Its date and the place of burial of Robert Gordon give a vague indication of the stone's location at that time. In 1933 an undecorated Carved Stone Ball was found in Golspie . In the village on Golspie-lairg Road there is a stone box and a remains of a stone circle .
literature
- Iain Fraser: The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland . Edinburgh.
- A. Mack: Field guide to the Pictish symbol stones . Balgavies, Angus. P. 123
- JNG Ritchie: Pictish symbol stones: a handlist 1985 . Edinburgh. Pp. 13-14
Web links
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- Entry on Golspie Stone in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 57 ° 58 ′ 54.4 " N , 3 ° 56 ′ 43.7" W.