Ulbster Stone

Travelled up to Thurso to take the Scrabster-Stromness ferry. We were a bit early so stopped off at the Thurso Museum for tea and cake.

This is the Ulbster Stone, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland describe it as follows.

Class II symbol stone containing a cross with pairs of symbols in the quadrants
Upper left - elephant over a salmon
Upper right - crescent and V-rod over a beast
Lower left - fish-monster over a step
Lower left - double-disc over a double-crescent.