The Bullion Stone is a late carved Pictish stone, which is unusual in containing a figure; it dates to c. 900-950.[1] It was discovered in 1933 during the construction of a road in Angus, Scotland, and is now located in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The image on the stone is unique amongst Pictish stones discovered thus far. It depicts a bald, bearded man on a weary horse, carrying a shield and drinking from a very large drinking horn with a bird's head terminal,[2] a parallel that has been noted to the Torrs Horns, also in the museum, of nearly 1,000 years earlier.[3]
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- ^ Museum of Scotland
- ^ "Ancient Scotland - Bullion Pictish Stone". Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Laings", Lloyd Laing and Jennifer Laing. Art of the Celts: From 700 BC to the Celtic Revival, p. 71, 1992, Thames & Hudson (World of Art), ISBN 0-500-20256-7