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Watenan Stone

The Watenan Stone is a fragment of a Class I symbol stone which features a partial crescent and V-rod.

The stone was found in two pieces in 1977 to the south of the Cairn o’ Get complex of cairns, brochs and stone rows, with the larger piece lying beside a low, round cairn and the smaller piece sitting on top of the cairn.

The carving of the crescent and V-rod, incised into the Caithness flagstone, is incomplete with the missing part evidently carved on a now missing fragment. The stone measures around 0.98m high by around 0.98m wide, with a thickness of between 0.52m and 0.61m, and is variously ascribed to the 6th to 8th centuries.

The stone was moved to the Northlands Viking Centre at Auckengill and then later to Caithness Horizons in Thurso, now named the North Coast Visitor Centre, where it now stands with a replica fragment completing the carving.

Watenan Stone

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Alternative names for Watenan Stone

Groat's Loch

Where is Watenan Stone?

Watenan Stone is in the parish of Wick and the county of Caithness.

Grid reference: ND 31171 40763

Lat / long: 58.349934, -3.1776337

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Wick & The Flow Country (Lybster, Latheron & Dunbeath)
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Weather at Watenan Stone

13°C
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References (books)

Field Guide to the Pictish Symbol Stones
Alastair Mack
Balgavies, 1997
The Pictish Guide
Elizabeth Sutherland
Edinburgh, 1997

References (websites)

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Pictish stones near Watenan Stone

Ulbster Stone Class II cross slab

2.6km away

Ulbster 2 Class I symbol stone

2.6km away

Latheron 2 Class I symbol stone

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Ackergill 2 Class I symbol stone

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Ackergill 1 Class I symbol stone

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Birkle Hill Class I symbol stone

17.9km away

Skinnet Stone Class II cross slab

27.9km away

Craig of Hattel Class I symbol stone

30.8km away
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Pictish sites near Watenan Stone

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Pictish placenames near Watenan Stone

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Ancient sites near Watenan Stone

Watenan South broch

0.7km away

Watenan North broch

0.9km away

Warehouse broch

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Bruan broch

1.3km away

Bruan broch

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Heatherquoy (possible) broch

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Castles near Watenan Stone

Gunn's Castle

2.2km away

Halberry Castle

3.2km away

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9.9km away

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10.5km away

Forse Castle

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Latheron Castle

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14.5km away

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Accommodation near Watenan Stone

Breadalbane House Hotel
hotelWick
11.2km away
Norseman Hotel
hotelWick
11.4km away
Ackergill Tower
hotel, restaurant, barWick
14.5km away
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hotelWick
15.4km away
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hotelThurso
29.5km away
The Castletown Hotel
hotelCastletown
29.8km away
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hotelThurso
29.9km away
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hotelJohn O' Groats
32.7km away
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hotel, restaurant, barThurso
33.7km away
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hotel, barThurso
33.8km away

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Cafés, restaurants & bars near Watenan Stone

Ackergill Tower
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14.5km away
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Published on the 16th of April 2017 at 12:58 pm. Updated on the 3rd of November 2024 at 12:02 pm.

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