Museum label: "Pictish carving: 'The Burghead Bull' / 7th century AD / From Burghead, Morayshire, Grampian, Scotland / The figure of a bull has been carved onto the dressed surface of a water-worn sandstone boulder. It is one of the finest of six survivors of about 30 bulls discovered in the 19th century at the promontory fort of Burghead on the Moray coast. They were probably brightly painted and set in the walls of the fort, making an impressive sight...
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