Sandness Stone

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The Stone as drawn by George Low
The Stone as drawn by George Low
The Sandness Pictish Symbol Stone was a Class I Pictish symbol stone.

It bears (le. to ri.) a mirror, a horseshoe and a rectangle. The stone was set into a wall of St. Margaret's Kirk, Sandness.

Low's record says:
Observed in the wall of the Church a stone, carved with several odd figures, the meaning of which nobody here could give any account of; only they have a sort of superstitious value for it, nor does tradition say for what. The engraving is shallow, nor is any literal inscription.

The stone is lost.

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