Bullion Stone Explained

The Bullion Stone is a late carved Pictish stone, which is unusual in containing a figure; it dates to c. 900–950.[1] It was discovered in 1933 at Bullion field, Invergowrie, during the construction of a road and is now located in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The image on the stone is unique amongst Pictish stones discovered thus far. It depicts a bald, bearded man on a weary horse, carrying a shield and drinking from a very large drinking horn with a bird's head terminal,[2] [3] a parallel that has been noted to the Torrs Horns, also in the museum, of nearly 1,000 years earlier.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Museum of Scotland .
  2. the Drunk and the Bullion Stone . Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes . Hislop . Ian . Ian Hislop . BBC Sounds.
  3. Web site: Bullion Pictish Stone . 2008-12-31 . Ancient Scotland.
  4. Book: Laing, Lloyd . Lloyd Laing (archaeologist) . Art of the Celts: From 700 BC to the Celtic Revival . Laing . Jennifer . . 1992 . 0-500-20256-7 . 71.