📌 Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross
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This 1,400 year-old cross slab stands on a low hill just across the River Tummel from Pitlochry. Unlike the touristy town, this stone receives few visitors (fortunate, given the limited parking), but its carvings are some of the finest to survive from Pictish times, including wild animals, biblical figures, monsters and Pictish symbols – both on the side that the cross is carved, and on the reverse. The 1.5 metre-high stone is housed in a glass and stone shelter, which protects it from the elements but causes reflections which are likely to annoy photographers.
🌍 Location
📌 Next to Dunfallandy Home Farm, off minor road 1 mi south of Pitlochry
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NN 946565
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.688601,-3.721996
🚌 Fairly infrequent bus stops near Foss Road / Bridge Road junction (0.5 mi), or better service stops on Atholl Road (A924) (1 mi)
🚗 Space for a single car at the start of the (private) Dunfallandy Home Farm access road
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
💬 From the parking space it’s a 2-min uphill walk to the stone, following the farm access road.
