Pictish stone discovered in Highland cemetery
End of image galleryThe stone has been removed to be cleaned and studiedThe stone could date to around the 6th CenturyA carved stone discovered in Caithness could help archaeologists shed new light on the development of Pictish symbols.
The stone is thought to date from about the 6th Century and has been taken to a safe place to be cleaned and studied. "Even now we don't really know what those symbols mean, and how they were used so this stone is really at the very beginning of that tradition of carving."
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