[MR] BBC: More on Pictish Cross Stone

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends, Especially Fellow Scots,

In August of this year a Pictish cross stone was discovered in a Dingwall
graveyard in the Scottish Highlands. The elaborately carved stone is only
half of its original two-meter height, and had been reused as a gravestone
in the late 1700s:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49446609 .

Now the stone has been cleaned, and two large beasties (to use the Scottish
word) carved on the backside have been revealed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-50040798 .
Archaeologists have described the animals as "unlike anything found
before". It is a very rare survival, as only around 50 such carved stones
are known to exist.

Yours Aye,

Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆