Nigg Stone
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The Nigg Stone is an incomplete Class II Pictish cross-slab, perhaps dating to the end of the 8th century.
Nigg Stone, inside the church
The reverse or "secular" side of the stone in a 19th-century illustration, minus the top section.
Top most fragment, showing depictions on both the front and reverse of the stone.
Pictish Beast
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The Pictish Beast is a conventional representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland. The great majority of surviving examples are on Pictish stones.
Nigg Stone
…is extremely complicated and made more difficult to interpret by deliberate defacement. Among the depictions are two Pictish symbols: an eagle above a Pictish Beast, a sheep, the oldest evidence of a European triangular harp, and hunting scenes. Scholars interpret the scene as representing a story of the biblical…
Maiden Stone, detail of eastern face
St Martin's stone
Strathmartine Castle Stone