By type
Pictish symbol stones, cross-slabs, standing stones and rock carvings — the marks left on bare stone.
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Angus
The stones were carved during the height of Pictish power in Angus, part of the kingdom later remembered as Fortriu. The Class I symbol stones carr…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
Achnabreck's rock surfaces were carved with cup and ring marks in prehistory — the purpose, and even the precise date, of the markings is uncertain…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Aberdeenshire
The Brandsbutt Stone is a Class I Pictish symbol stone in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, a large block of whinstone bearing two incised Pictish symbols…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
The Calanais Stones are a prehistoric stone circle and stone alignment on a low ridge above Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis, built during the Neolit…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Perth and Kinross
Croft Moraig is a complex multi-phase monument. Excavation in 1965 revealed three phases of construction: first a horseshoe of fourteen timber post…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Aberdeen City
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Angus
The cross-slab was carved about the mid-8th century AD. It was found in the bed of the Eassie Burn near Eassie Church by Rev. Cordiner around 1786.
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Highland
About 200 upright stones, none more than a metre high, are set in rows running roughly north-south down the slope at Mid Clyth. The rows are not pa…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Scottish Borders
C. M. Piggott's 1948 excavation at Hownam Rings became a landmark in the archaeology of northern Britain. It produced the 'Hownam model' (or 'Howna…
Carved stone · Medieval
Scottish Borders
In 1118, before his accession to the Scottish throne, Prince David established a foundation of Augustinian canons at Jedburgh. It rose from priory…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
The two surviving stones were likely erected about 2000 BC. Tradition holds they were originally part of a circle of up to 14 stones; seven still r…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Aberdeenshire
The cross-slab was carved probably in the late 8th or early 9th century AD as a Class II Pictish monument, combining Christian and pre-Christian Pi…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Aberdeenshire
The Picardy Symbol Stone is a Pictish symbol stone near Huntly, Aberdeenshire. Its carvings are dated to around AD 600, and it is a scheduled monum…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle on the narrow isthmus between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray on Mainland, Orkney. It is…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Dumfries and Galloway
The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating from the 8th century, when Ruthwell — now in Scotland — was part of the Anglo-Saxon…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Angus
The stone is a Class II Pictish cross-slab - worked Old Red Sandstone carved in relief on both faces, bearing Pictish symbols alongside a Christian…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
The Stones of Stenness are a Neolithic monument and may be the oldest henge site in the British Isles; radiocarbon dating indicates work on the sit…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Falkirk
Tappoch Broch is an Iron Age broch set in a remote spot in dense woodland near Falkirk; the dry-stone walls, about six metres thick, still stand tw…
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Angus
Radiocarbon dating shows the neighbouring Brown Caterthun was built and modified over several centuries in the latter half of the first millennium…
Carved stone · Medieval
Argyll and Bute
A surviving group of late medieval cross-slabs and grave markers rescued from a lost parish church, now protected as a scheduled monument in the gr…
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