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Sunday, 3 November 2019

Funds awarded to help conserve Dingwall Pictish stones

One of the two stones was found to have been decorated with carvings never before 
seen on a Pictish stone
NOSAS

A project to conserve two newly-discovered ancient carved standing stones has secured key funding.

Archaeologists found the Pictish stones hidden by vegetation at an early Christian church site near Dingwall in the Highlands earlier this year.

Historic Environment Scotland has awarded £5,000 to the North of Scotland Archaeological Society.

The money will be put towards to costs of conserving the stones and having them displayed at a local museum.

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