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Glamis

Cross Slab (pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (pictish)
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glamis as Cross Slab (pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (pictish). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Dated to the Pictish period (circa 4th to 9th century AD), the Glamis Cross Slab is likely associated with early Christian or Pictish symbolic tradition. It may have served a ritual, commemorative, or territorial function, though specific folklore or inscriptions remain unrecorded.

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