Dunfallandy, near Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross, Scotland.
This Class II pictish stone is carved using both incision and relief, it stands to a height of 1.5 metres. It is carved on its two broad faces. One side is dominated by a large equal armed cross which is infilled using a mixture of key, interlace and spiral patterns. Around the cross are a series of panels depicting stylised animals and angels. The other side is framed by two creatures with dragon like heads, worm or eel-like bodies and fish tails, between the dragon like heads is a human head. Moving down the slab is a Pictish Beast, Double-Disc, Crescent with V-Rod. Two figures seated on chairs facing a cross situated on a raised pediment. A figure riding a horse with a Crescent with V-Rod by the horses head with a pictish beast below. The lowest group of symbols are a hammer with anvil (or crucible) and tongs.
see: https://canmore.org.uk/site/26295/dunfallandy
Grid Reference: NN 94629 56531
Photographed: 06 September 2021
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