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Hunter's Hill Stone

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The symbol stone on Hunters Hill is probably in situ. Symbol stones are divided into two "classes". Class I are natural stones with carvings, while the later "Class II stones" have reliefs. The Hunters Hill stone is both. Originally a carved natural stone, it was later carved with a relief on the
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The Hunter's Hill stone belongs to the Aberlemno School of Pictish sculpture as extended by Laing from Ross Trench Jellicoe's original proposed list. In addition to the Glamis manse stone, stones in the Aberlemno School include
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The stone, a cross-slab, is 1.52 metres (5 ft 0 in) high, 0.71 metres (2 ft 4 in) wide. The slab is carved on the cross face in
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back. The other stone that has been reused in this way is the symbol stone of Glamis Manse, about 800 m to the west.
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The cross slab is located in woodland on the north slope of Hunter's Hill, to the south east of
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and Joseph Anderson's classification system as a class II stone.
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Rear of Hunter's Hill stone, showing incised symbols
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Pictish standing stone
Glamis
Angus, Scotland
Glamis
A94 road
grid reference
NO39374654
relief
incised
John Romilly Allen
Aberlemno 2
Aberlemno 3
Monifieth 2
Eassie
Glamis Manse Stone
Glamis Manse Stone
Ordnance Survey
ISBN
0-319-22980-7
"Site record for Hunters Hill, Thornton Standing Stone"
"Preliminary list of sculptured stones older than A.D. 1100, with symbols and Celtic ornament, in Scotland"
"A missing figure on slab fragment no 2 from Monifieth, Angus, the a'Chill Cross, Canna, and some implications of the development of a variant form of the Virgin's hairsyle and dress in early medieval Scotland"
the original
"The date and context of the Glamis, Angus, carved Pictish stones"
the original
56°36′24″N 2°59′21″W / 56.6068°N 2.9893°W / 56.6068; -2.9893
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