Find Spot record 1023 - STROME SHUNNAMAL, BENBECULA

NF85NW 5 centred 803 566.

A slab of grey granite, 3ft by 2 1/2ft by 8 to 9ins, with an incised design on one face, was found by Carmichael 'lying on the seashore near the remains of an ancient building' (J R Allen and J Anderson 1903) at Strome Shunnamal, or the Stronce or Sound of Sunnamal, which is on the NE side of Benbecula and is dry at low water. The slab is now in the NMAS. (IB 37).
A A Carmichael 1871; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; RCAHMS 1928.

The Sound of Sunamul is the area of sea centred at NF 803 566, between the island of Sunamul and the mainland of Benbecula. No further information about the find-spot of the stone was discovered.
Visited by OS (R D) 8 June 1928.

It is a slab of grey granite, 0.9m x 0.76m x 0.22m and bears on one face, an incised rectangular symbol, ornamented within and a disc containing 3 smaller ones.
R Jones 1980

Class I symbol stone bearing a rectangle above a disc holding three smaller discs.
A.Mack 1997 p.30

A A Carmichael, 1868-70, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 284-5 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE518.

Joseph Anderson, 1903, The early Christian monuments of Scotland, 110-11 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE403.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 104, No. 356 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

J N G Ritchie, 1985, Pictish Symbol Stones: a handlist 1985, 17 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5735.

A Mack, 1997, Field Guide to the Pictish Symbol Stones, 30 (Bibliographic reference). SWE37310.