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The Double disc is a Pictish symbol found on Class I and Class II Pictish standing stones, in caves, and on certain Pictish artefacts, including decorated metal ornaments, brooches, Pictish chains and steatite discs.
The double disc can be found with or without overlain Z-rod, usually in combination with other Pictish symbols. They can occasionally be found in multiples, either including two double discs with Z-rods, as is the case on the Torgorm fragment now situated in Inverness museum, and with combinations of double discs with and without Z-rods, as is the case with Monifieth I, now situated in the National Museum of Scotland.[1]
Double Disc
[edit]Aberdeenshire
[edit]Huntly (now weathered) Logie Elphinstone
Fife
[edit]Westfield, Falkland. Wemyss caves.
Angus
[edit]Edzell I Monifieth I St Vigeans IV Woodwrae
Caithness
[edit]Ulbster
Inverness
[edit]Drumbuie I
Ross
[edit]Clachna Charridh, Shandwick
Sutherland
[edit]Golspie
Orkney
[edit]Pool, Sanday
Perth and Kinross
[edit]Wester Fowlis Inchyra Logierait Longforgan
Double disc and Z-rod
[edit]All stones
[edit]Angus
[edit]Gallery
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Whitecleugh chain, one of ten known to exist, dating from between 400 and 800 AD
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Aberlemno III double disc and Z-rod and crescent and V-rod
References
[edit]- ^ Neish, J. (1871). "Note of a donation of four sculptured stones from Monifieth, Forfarshire" (PDF). Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland. 9: 71–81.