Perthshire.
Nigg Stone.
Book of Kells.
Margam Abbey, Wales.
Nevern, Wales.
Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Wales.]]> The necessary layout required by the scribe before interlacing in two lines.
Details from the lower right circle of the Eight Circled Cross page of the Book of Kells.
The actual diameter is about 1 and a quarter inches.
The interlacing knotwork border is about three quarter inch long.
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The necessary layout with compasses for the lower right circle of the page of the Eight Circled Cross of the Book of Kells.]]> Book of Kells.
Nigg Stone.]]>
The stone was originally located at the gateway to the grounds of the parish church of Nigg, Easter Ross. It is one of the finest surviving Pictish carved stones, and one of the most elaborate carved stones surviving from early medieval Europe. It is now displayed, restored to its original proportions, in a room inside the parish church (open in summer; key kept locally). It bears an elaborately decorated cross in high relief on the 'front' and a figural scene on the reverse. This scene is extremely complicated and made more difficult to interpret by deliberate defacement. Among the depictions are two Pictish symbols: an eagle above a Pictish Beast, a sheep, the oldest evidence of a European triangular harp, and hunting scenes. Scholars interpret the scene as representing a story of the biblical King David. The carvings on the cross side show close similarities to the contemporary high crosses of Iona. These works may indeed have been created by the same 'school' of carvers, working for different patrons. The stone was shattered in the 18th century. The upper and lower parts were crudely joined together using metal staples (now removed), and the shattered intervening part was discarded. Part of the missing fragment was recovered in 1998 by Niall M Robertson, in the stream which runs below the mound on which the churchyard is set, having probably been thrown down the bank at the time the slab was 'repaired'. This small fragment shows most of the 'Pictish beast' symbol, and was preserved in Tain Museum, until being reattached during a restoration in 2013.]]>
Details of panel on the right side of the cross-shaft of the Nigg Stone.]]>
The stone was discovered at Hilton of Cadboll, on the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross, Scotland. Class II Pictish stone.

On the seaward-facing side is a Christian cross, and on the landward facing side are secular depictions. The latter are carved below the Pictish symbols of crescent and v-rod and double disc and Z-rod: a hunting scene including a woman wearing a large penannular brooch riding side-saddle. Like other similar stones, it can be dated to about 800 AD.]]> 'AN EXPERIMENT OF THE ODD NUMBERED METHOD FOR MARKING A CONTINUOUS LINE, THIS HAS MADE TWO LINES.']]>