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The Kebbuck Stone, Ardersier: A Lost Pictish Symbol Stone?

The Kebbuck Stone, Ardersier: A Lost Pictish Symbol Stone?

by Fiona Campbell-Howes This is the Kebbuck Stone, a relief-carved cross slab dated to the 8th or 9th century, which today sits in the back garden of a cottage near Ardersier. Location of the Kebbuck Stone in Nairnshire It’s usually overlooked in the corpus of early medieval (“Pictish”) stone sculpture because the carvings have almost completely worn away and the surface of the stone is…