What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tarbat 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–9th century AD), the Tarbat Cross Slab is likely associated with early Christian or Pictish symbolic traditions. It may have served a ritual or commemorative function, reflecting the fusion of Pictish and Christian iconography in early medieval Scotland.
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Places near here
Tarbat Parish ChurchGravestone (early Medieval) · 22 yd
Tarbat Discovery CentreMuseum · 32 yd
Baptism WellSpring · 141 yd
Tarbat, PortmahomackCommemorative Monument (period Unassigned) · 143 yd
PortmahomackDitch (period Unassigned) · 198 yd
Tarbat War MemorialMemorial · 216 yd.jpg?width=1280)
Portmahomack, War MemorialWar Memorial (period Unassigned) (1921) · 217 yd
Portmahomack, Main StreetNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 253 yd
Portmahomack Harbour Street FountainMemorial · 589 yd
Portmahomack, Harbour StreetNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 635 yd
Rockfield Farm, Little Tarrel CastleTower House (medieval) · 1.3 mi
Tarrel CaveCave (period Unassigned) · 2.4 miOther information
Photo: sylvia duckworth · CC BY-SA 2.0