From ‘Undiscovered Scotland’ :
The second carved stone is rather smaller than the great cross slab, but the carving is very much crisper. This is doubtless due to its having been buried within the structure of a wall since the 1300s. Indeed, it is actually possible that the stone was never exposed to the elements at all. The bottom right hand corner of the front face of the stone has broken away. It is clear that this happened after the mason had carved the detail on the front of the stone, but before he did the sides and back. There are signs that the mason tried to cover up the problem by carving into the broken area, but he then seems to have given up. The stone may well have been discarded at that point, five hundred years later to make its way into the wall of a church, and six hundred years after that being found and finally exposed to view. Fragments of a third Pictish stone are also on display, and there are said to be others known to be still within the structure of the kirk.
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