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MuseumsSite Name: Elgin Museum
Country: Scotland County: Moray Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Elgin
Map Ref: NJ218628  Landranger Map Number: 28
Latitude: 57.648301N  Longitude: 3.311826W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Elgin Museum submitted by cosmic : Museum Frontage (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Moray

Pictish Stones, unique local fossils, Archaeology, Geology and Natural History.

Address: 1 High Street, IV30 1EQ
Phone: 01343 543675
Opening Hours: Open Easter to October, other times by arrangement, Mon - Fri 10.00 - 5.00; Sat. 11.00 - 4.00
Admission: Small Charge
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Elgin Museum
Elgin Museum submitted by Sunny100 : Stone slab from Burghead, Moray, dating from the 7th-8th century. A bull is carved on what is probably a Pictish stone. It stands in the Elgin Museum where there are similar stones with carvings of bulls. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Elgin Museum submitted by cosmic : Kinneddar Fragment (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Elgin Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved Balls (Vote or comment on this photo)

Elgin Museum
Elgin Museum submitted by cosmic : Burghead 3 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Elgin Museum submitted by cosmic : Burghead Two (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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 468m NE 56° Elgin symbol stone* Class II Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ2219263057)
 3.3km W 274° Quarry Wood* Henge (NJ185631)
 4.2km SSW 195° Birnie Pictish Stone* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ20645872)
 4.4km S 189° Birnie Roundhouses* Misc. Earthwork (NJ210585)
 4.9km ENE 69° Urquart Stones* Stone Circle (NJ26456450)
 5.6km W 269° Alves Stone Circle* Stone Circle (NJ162628)
 5.9km ESE 119° Errol circle Stone Circle (NJ26905984)
 6.0km ESE 109° Bogton Mill* Stone Circle (NJ2743060765)
 6.0km SSW 210° Upper Manbeen* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ1868957615)
 6.6km N 3° Drainie 3, 13, 26 Class III Pictish Cross Slab (NJ223694)
 6.6km NNW 336° Gordonstoun Ogston Cross* Ancient Cross (NJ19276892)
 7.0km NNW 330° Gordounstoun Class II Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ184689)
 7.2km E 79° Innesmill* Stone Circle (NJ28956407)
 7.6km WNW 283° Easterton of Roseisle* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ144647)
 8.4km SSE 162° Netherglen* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NJ24315476)
 8.6km WNW 301° Tappoch of Roseisle Round Cairn (NJ145673)
 8.6km NW 310° Inverugie Cup marked stone* Rock Art (NJ15296838)
 8.6km NW 310° Camus Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NJ15306840)
 8.7km NW 312° Inverugie* Round Cairn (NJ154687)
 8.7km ENE 72° Binn Hill* Round Cairn (NJ30166532)
 8.8km NW 307° Inverugie Souterrain* Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) (NJ148682)
 8.9km NW 306° Inverugie Cup and Ring Marked rocks* Rock Art (NJ147682)
 9.0km NNW 330° Sculptor's Cave* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ175707)
 9.3km NW 321° Clasach Cove* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ16007013)
 11.5km WNW 302° St Ethan's Well (Burghead) Holy Well or Sacred Spring (NJ12076906)
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Kinneddar: Fragmentary hints of a royal Pictish monastery by Andy B on Sunday, 14 August 2022
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In which Fiona Campbell-Howes tries to work out if an early medieval site near Lossiemouth is related to Sueno’s Stone [ https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7249 ]

Fiona writes: I’ve said before that my favourite thing about early medieval Scotland is that you have to draw on lots of different disciplines to try to piece its history together.

With very few written records from before the 11th century, most of the information has to come from archaeology, art history, place-names, geology, geography, and comparison with other, better-documented places and times.

For my MA I’m trying to build up a picture of what was happening in Moray around 850-950 AD: the time period when art historians estimate Sueno’s Stone was put up. I want to try to put Sueno’s Stone into its local context, and that means looking at other contemporary sites in the area and trying to work out the relationships between them.

More at https://fortrenn.substack.com/p/kinneddar-fragmentary-hints-of-a
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Stone fragment from near Kinneddar old church now in Elgin musem by Andy B on Sunday, 14 August 2022
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...fragments were found in old dykes about the Manse, and a few were dug up in the old churchyard. The old manse stood close to the graveyard and the site of Kinneddar old parish church and early medieval foundation, then located beside a sea loch.

https://canmore.org.uk/site/16489/drainie
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Elgin Museum by cosmic on Sunday, 07 September 2008
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As well as the best of the latest bits from Birnie this museum also has two (well one and half) of the six remaining Burghead Bulls, several fragments from Kinneddar and some carved stone balls.
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