# Bullion Stone

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The **Bullion Stone** is a late carved [Pictish stone](/source/Pictish_stone), which is unusual in containing a figure; it dates to c. 900–950.[1] It was discovered in 1933 at Bullion field, [Invergowrie](/source/Invergowrie), during the construction of a road and is now located in the [Museum of Scotland](/source/Museum_of_Scotland) in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh). The image on the stone is unique amongst Pictish stones discovered thus far. It depicts a bald, bearded man on a weary horse, carrying a shield and drinking from a very large [drinking horn](/source/Drinking_horn) with a bird's head terminal,[2][3] a parallel that has been noted to the [Torrs Horns](/source/Torrs_Horns), also in the museum, of nearly 1,000 years earlier.[4]

## See also

- [Pictish stones](/source/Pictish_stones)
- [Stones of Scotland](/source/Stones_of_Scotland)

## References

1. ["Museum of Scotland"](http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-043-517-C&scache=4rt0ra9biu&searchdb=scran)

1. Hislop, Ian. ["the Drunk and the Bullion Stone"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vmcb). Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes. [BBC Sounds](/source/BBC_Sounds)

1. ["Bullion Pictish Stone"](http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk/site.php?a=193). *Ancient Scotland*. Retrieved 2008-12-31.

1. Laing, Lloyd & Laing, Jennifer (1992). *Art of the Celts: From 700 BC to the Celtic Revival*. [Thames & Hudson](/source/Thames_%26_Hudson) [World of Art](/source/World_of_Art). p. 71. ISBN 0-500-20256-7.

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