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.
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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