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Caithness Field Club

Caithness Field Club Bulletin
2008

The Congash Symbol Stones (by Geoff Leet)

On the Sunday of the 2007 Club weekend at Nethy Bridge we visited Congash. This lies at NT058262, about 2 miles SSW of Granton on Spey, off the A95. The stone makes a gatepost at the edge of the numerous scattered stones of a chapel site extending over the area of a few tennis courts. We only found stone No 2; Stone No 1 may be in care, stolen, or just less easy to find.
The excellent Victorian "Early Christian Monuments of Scotland", by Allan & Anderson, see below, shows our stone clearly. The Z rod and mirror case still showed clearly, but the ground level has come up obscuring the lower portion of the "helmet". The image we could see looked like a gymnast inside a hoop, or Saint Catherine on her wheel !


Congash Number 2 Pictish symbol stone

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