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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hilton of Cadboll - Class I Pictish Symbol Stone in Scotland in Highlands

Submitted by cosmic on Sunday, 28 May 2006  Page Views: 10556

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Hilton of Cadboll
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 4.577 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Highlands Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Nearest Town: Tain  Nearest Village: Balintore
Map Ref: NH873768
Latitude: 57.766669N  Longitude: 3.896095W
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
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
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
0no data
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PrincessOfAvalon visited on 21st Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Quite a good atmosphere. The stone is located in a field about 1/4 mile downhill and by a sheep pasture. The stone is a faithful replica sculpture of the original (in the British Museum).

Hilton of Cadboll
Hilton of Cadboll submitted by cosmic : centre panel (Vote or comment on this photo)
Class I Pictish Symbol Stone in Highlands

This Pictish Stone has been removed to the Museum of Scotland but a replica stands in situ. The stone itself was recycled as a grave stone with the cross side being defaced in the 17th century.

The centre piece denotes a woman riding side saddle which is taken to indicate the importance of her.

Further information at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst8996.html.
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Hilton of Cadboll
Hilton of Cadboll submitted by PrincessOfAvalon : A view from the nearest road. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NH8776 : Cadboll 'Cross Slab' by Stanley Howe
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NH8776 : Chapel and Sculpture by Stanley Howe
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NH8776 : Hilton of Cadboll stone by Richard Dorrell
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NH8776 : Hilton of Cadboll stone by Richard Dorrell
by Richard Dorrell
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NH8776 : Remains of a chapel by Richard Dorrell
by Richard Dorrell
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Re: Hilton of Cadboll by DrewParsons on Saturday, 22 May 2010
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New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered. News item resourced by coldrum.

Once thought to be rock art, carved depictions of soldiers, horses and other figures are in fact part of a written language dating back to the Iron Age. Riders and horn blowers appear next to hunting dogs appear on what is called the Hilton of Cadboll stone

THE GIST:
* A new written language, belonging to the early Pict society of Scotland, has just been identified.
* Stylized rock engravings have been found on hundreds of Pictish Stones.
* If the writing can be deciphered, it would provide a unique insight into early Scottish history.

The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that new research has just determined contain the written language of the Picts, an Iron Age society that existed in Scotland from 300 to 843.

The highly stylized rock engravings, found on what are known as the Pictish Stones, had once been thought to be rock art or tied to heraldry. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, instead concludes that the engravings represent the long lost language of the Picts, a confederation of Celtic tribes that lived in modern-day eastern and northern Scotland.

"We know that the Picts had a spoken language to complement the writing of the symbols, as Bede (a monk and historian who died in 735) writes that there are four languages in Britain in this time: British, Pictish, Scottish and English," lead author Rob Lee told Discovery News.
rome wall. "We know that the three other languages were -- and are -- complex spoken languages, so there is every indication that Pictish was also a complex spoken language," added Lee, a professor in the School of Biosciences at the University of Exeter.

He and colleagues Philip Jonathan and Pauline Ziman analyzed the engravings, found on the few hundred known Pictish Stones. The researchers used a mathematical process known as Shannon entropy to study the order, direction, randomness and other characteristics of each engraving.

The resulting data was compared with that for numerous written languages, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese texts and written Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Ancient Irish, Old Irish and Old Welsh. While the Pictish Stone engravings did not match any of these, they displayed characteristics of writing based on a spoken language.

Lee explained that writing comes in two basic forms: lexigraphic writing that is based on speech and semasiography, which is not based on speech.

"Lexigraphic writing contains symbols that represent parts of speech, such as words, or sounds like syllables or letters, and tends to be written in a linear or directional manner mimicking the flow of speech," he said. "In semasiography, the symbols do not represent speech -- such as the cartoon symbols used to show you how to build a flat pack piece of furniture -- and generally do not come in a linear manner."

Although Lee and his team have not yet deciphered the Pictish language, some of the symbols provide intriguing clues. One symbol looks like a dog's head, for example, while others look like horses, trumpets, mirrors, combs, stags, weapons and crosses.

The later Pictish Stones also contain images, like Celtic knots, similar to those found in the Book of Kells and other early works from nearby regions. These more decorative looking images frame what Lee and his team believe is the written Pictish language.

"It is unclear at the moment whether the imagery, such as the knots, form any part of the communication," Lee said. He believes the stones also contain semasiographic symbols, such as a picture of riders and horn blowers next to hunting dogs on what is called the Hilton of Cadboll stone. Yet another stone shows what appears to be a battle scene.

Paul Bouissac, a University of Toronto professor who is one of the

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Re: Hilton of Cadboll by Anonymous on Thursday, 19 April 2007
The Hilton-of-Cadboll stone is a Class II Pictish Stone:
Quote from RCAHMS: "Class II symbol stone. The cross on face has been destroyed. On the reverse are a mounted female figure accompanied by other mounted figures,musicians and animals in a detailed hunting scene. A mirror and comb lie to the left and are surmounted by a crescent and V-rod: a double-disc and Z-rod are seen in a frame above.
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