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Murthly Pictish Stone

Gellyburn    Dunkeld, Perthshire


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The left half of the carved panel.
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The right half of the carved panel.
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This Class III stone, found in 1886 whilst ploughing, is now in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Carved on one side in a single panel, this very unusual stone shows

  • at left: two creatures, one half-man half-bird and the other half-man half-dog, fighting with swords and shields;
  • at centre: two sea creatures facing each other;
  • at right: a man fleeing from a giant boar above a third sea creature.


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