Rosemarkie Stone

The Rosemarkie Stone or Rosemarkie Cross, a Class II Pictish stone, is one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone.

Carved from fine-grained sandstone, the Rosemarkie stone was found sometime prior to 1821 in the floor of the old church in the village of Rosemarkie. Rosemarkie was the probable site of a major Pictish monastery, on the Black Isle of Easter Ross. When found, the stone was broken into two parts that have since been reconstructed.^[1] The reconstructed stone is now on display in Rosemarkie's Groam House Museum.^[2]

On the front side is an elaborately decorated cross, while on the reverse side are various common Pictish symbols, including three crescents and v-rods and a double-disc and Z-rod, as well as a smaller cross at the bottom. It is the only Pictish stone to bear three versions of the same symbol. The sides are also decorated with a number of interlace patterns.

• Rosemarkie sculpture fragments

• Fraser, Iain, Ritchie, J.N.G., et al., Pictish Symbol Stones: An Illustrated Gazetteer, (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999)
• Jones, Duncan, A Wee Guide to The Picts, (Musselburgh, 2003)
• MacNamara, Ellen, The Pictish Stones of Easter Ross, (Tain, 2003)

• Am Baile

57°35′29″N 4°6′48″W / 57.59139°N 4.11333°W / 57.59139; -4.11333

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