Hilton of Cadboll Stone
The Hilton of Cadboll Stone is one of the most magnificent of all Pictish cross-slabs. It was erected on the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross, Scotland about AD 800.Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hilton of Cadboll and Balintore.
Hilton of Cadboll
Village
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hilton of Cadboll, or simply Hilton, is a village about 15 km southeast of Tain in Easter Ross, in the Scottish council area of Highland. It is famous for the Hilton of Cadboll Stone.
Balintore
Village
Photo: Rudhach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Balintore is a village near Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland. It is one of three villages on this northern stretch of the Moray Firth coastline: Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick are known collectively as the Seaboard Villages.
Shandwick
Village
Photo: Mike Baldwin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shandwick, a village near Tain in Easter Ross, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland, Scotland. Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick are known collectively as the Seaboard Villages.
Hilton of Cadboll Stone
- Type: Runestone
- Description: Class II Pictish stone discovered at Hilton of Cadboll
- Categories: archaeological site and historic site
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.76705° or 57° 46′ 1″ northLongitude
-3.89626° or 3° 53′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C9RQ483+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 9397043364OpenStreetMap feature
historic=rune_stoneWikidata ID
Q965485
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Norwegian Bokmål—“Hilton of Cadboll Stone” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Hilton of Cadboll Stone”
- French: “pierres pictes de Ross”
- French: “Pierres pictes de Ross”
- German: “Hilton of Cadboll Stone”
- Italian: “Hilton of Cadboll Stone”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hilton of Cadboll Stone”
- Norwegian: “Hilton of Cadboll Stone”
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