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Pictish symbol stone and site of a tumulus. A tumulus was opened by Sir Patrick Maule about 1620. It was found to contain a skeleton, a bowl-shaped food vessel, and a broad, oval gold ring which Anderson suggests was a pommel mount for a bronze dagger, similar to that found at Gask Hill in Fife. An alternative identification for the ring is that it is part of an armlet. The urn and ring are in Brechin Castle. The Pictish Class III stone known as Camus's Cross (or Camus's Stone or Comuston Cross) stood on the tumulus originally, but now stands on a low 1m high mound, 7.5 m east-west x 4.4 m. The free-standing cross, of Old Red Sandstone, faces east-west and measures 2 m high with arms 0.8 m across and 0.2 m thick. The sculptures are best preserved on the east face and the north and south sides. It is quite weathered on the west face but the symbols are still discernible. The front is divided into three panels with the top and two side arms of the cross bearing the Crucifixion. Below this is a sagittarius, and below that again are scrolls of foliage. On the back of the cross it is again divided into three panels with the top and side arms showing Christ holding a book in the left hand and giving a benediction with the right, with an angel on either side. Below the two panels contain pairs of ecclesiastics or evangelists also carrying books. On the two sides are scrolls of foliage. The original tumulus was probably cleared away when the avenue from Panmure House to the Panmure Monument was made.
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NO53NW0003 - CAMUS'S CROSS