This stone was discovered in 1948 when digging foundations for the new houses at Strath, Gairloch at the foot of the Manse glebe.
Pictish stones are numerous in the East and North of Scotland but rare in the West and its existence here, on the most fertile tract of land in the area, testifies to the existence of a Pictish settlement here between 400 and 600 A.D.
The stone has a particularly good example of the "fish" symbol which is common to many such stones and may have had a Christian significance. Above it there would have been an eagle of which only the feet and tail remain.
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