The Eagle Stone
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The Eagle Stone
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The Clach an Tiompain (in English, the "Sounding Stone") or The Eagle Stone is a small Class I Pictish stone, located on a hill on the northern outskirts of Strathpeffer in Easter Ross, Scotland.
The stone was originally located further down the hill, towards Dingwall, but was moved to its current site in 1411. One old traditional story, is that the stone marks the site of a Scottish clan battle that took place in 1411 between the Clan Munro and a branch of the Clan MacDonald, and that the stone commemorates a Munro victory as it is marked with their symbol, an eagle.
The stone was originally located further down the hill, towards Dingwall, but was moved to its current site in 1411. One old traditional story, is that the stone marks the site of a Scottish clan battle that took place in 1411 between the Clan Munro and a branch of the Clan MacDonald, and that the stone commemorates a Munro victory as it is marked with their symbol, an eagle.
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image courtsey RCAHMS
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image courtsey RCAHMS, “The Eagle Stone,” Open Virtual Worlds, accessed April 29, 2024, http://straylight.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/404.
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