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The collection also includes a number of architectural pieces which are likely to have adorned an early stone church, including a probable label-stop and a gable finial. This collection, not yet fully published, is probably the most extensive to survive from early medieval
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has proposed that the majority of the carved pieces originated in four monumental crosses or cross-slabs of exceptional size and elaboration, placed around the site of St Colman's Church. One of these (TR1) carried four
Pictish symbols, a second (TR2) had snake-headed
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art. Nineteen pieces were found in and around the churchyard before 1994, and the remainder were found during formal archaeological investigations by the
University of York between 1994 and 2007
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There are around 200 of these fragments, each the size of a handspan or larger, making
Portmahomack one of the major centres of rediscovered
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Carver, Martin
Sculpture in Action: contexts for stone carving on the Tarbat peninsula, Easter Ross in Sally M Foster and Morag Cross (eds)
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commemorating an unknown person. The fourth cross was covered in spiral and interlace ornament. Another large fragment, the so-called
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lid with images of a boar and a wolf-like creature. Yet another fragment, the so-called
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Able Minds and
Practised Hands. Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st century
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136:Pictish Symbol Stones: An Illustrated Gazetteer
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145:(Historic Scotland, 2005): 13–36.
285:Portmahomack sculpture fragments
21:Portmahomack sculpture fragments
130:Fraser, Iain, Ritchie, J.N.G.,
295:Rosemarkie sculpture fragments
16:Fragments of stone Pictish art
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627:St Vigeans Sculptured Stones
612:Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones
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617:Monifieth Sculptured Stones
572:Aberlemno Sculptured Stones
397:Inveravon Church stones (4)
389:Easterton of Roseisle stone
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632:Strathmartine Castle Stone
44:Tarbat Discovery Programme
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376:Burghead (fragment) stone
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192:Pictish sculptured stones
543:Newbigging, Leslie Stone
526:Logie Elphinstone Stones
320:Badenoch and Strathspey
270:Hilton of Cadboll Stone
665:Meigle standing stones
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385:Drainie Carved Stones
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756:57.83722°N 3.82750°W
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607:Hunter's Hill Stone
555:Tillytarmont Stones
367:Birnie Symbol Stone
255:Edderton Cross Slab
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602:Glamis Manse Stone
310:Strathpeffer Stone
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647:Perth and Kinross
622:St Orland's Stone
452:Knocknagael Stone
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455:Lochardill Stone
449:Kingsmills Stone
380:Dandaleith stone
347:Inverallan Stone
330:Ballintomb Stone
290:Rosemarkie Stone
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245:Ardjachie Stone
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597:Eassie Stone
546:Newton Stone
534:Migvie Stone
530:Maiden Stone
519:Fyvie Stones
441:Garbeg Stone
393:Elgin Pillar
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29:Portmahomack
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683:Abdie stone
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509:Dyce stones
435:Dores Stone
327:Advie Stone
210:Birkle Hill
99:Northumbria
75:sarcophagus
25:Easter Ross
774:Categories
744:57°50′14″N
275:Nigg Stone
125:References
85:and other
79:Calf Stone
71:Boar Stone
31:(Tarbat),
747:3°49′39″W
422:Inverness
213:Crosskirk
207:Ackergill
200:Caithness
107:Shandwick
89:sites in
53:interlace
718:Shetland
467:Aberdeen
219:Sandside
216:Latheron
119:Scotland
95:Scotland
33:Scotland
228:Watenan
225:Ulbster
222:Skinnet
40:Pictish
706:Greens
696:Orkney
132:et al.
91:Argyll
564:Angus
359:Moray
57:Latin
675:Fife
469:and
237:Ross
111:Nigg
109:and
83:Iona
19:The
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