The harper on the Dupplin Cross, Scotland, circa 800 AD

The Dupplin Cross is a carved, monumental Pictish stone, which dates from around 800 AD.^[1]^[2] It was first recorded by Thomas Pennant in 1769, on a hillside in Strathearn, a little to the north of (and on the opposite bank of the River Earn from) Forteviot and Dunning. In 2002 it was placed in the care of Historic Scotland, and was placed for preservation under the 11th/12th-century tower of St Serf's Church, Dunning.

The Dupplin Cross is a high cross, that is a free-standing stone cross. While relatively common in Ireland, Northumbria and in Dál Riata, such crosses are rare survivals in the lands of the Picts, though fragments of shattered crosses (probably cast down during the 16th-century Reformation) show that a number once existed. In the 18th century a second cross, the Cross of Dronachy, was recorded as having stood on the lands of Invermay, south of Forteviot and also overlooking Forteviot, but having fallen and broken.^[3] The cross base survives in situ, but the records do not provide details of its exact form.

The cross is carved from Old Red Sandstone, the cross stands about 2.5 metres tall, 1 metre broad over the arms of the cross. It is carved with various scenes, religious, martial and traditional Pictish animal carvings. The cross contains a partially legible inscription, of which only the name CUSTANTIN FILIUS FIRCUS can be read. This name is taken as the Latin form of the early 9th-century Pictish king's Gaelic name Caustantín son of Fergus (fl. 793–820).

Since the inscription implies that the cross was carved either during, or shortly after, the reign of Caustantín, it is particularly important as giving a fixed point in the chronology of Pictish sculpture. It also indicates that Gaelic was spoken at the time as it uses the Gaelic personal name of his father in Latin.

Other carved themes on the cross include a rider with an oversized head and ponytail showing him to be a man of authority. On the obverse a man fights bears with his bare hands. The sides include a man (probably David) playing a harp, and hunting dogs.

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Pictish sculptured stones

Pictish sculptured stones
Caithness	Ackergill Birkle Hill Crosskirk Latheron Sandside Skinnet Ulbster Watenan
Ross	Ardjachie Stone Dingwall Stone Edderton Cross Slab Clach Chairidh Gairloch Stone Hilton of Cadboll Stone Nigg Stone Poolewe Stone Portmahomack sculpture fragments Rosemarkie Stone Rosemarkie sculpture fragments Rosskeen Stone Shandwick Stone Strathpeffer Stone
Badenoch and Strathspey	Advie Stone Ballintomb Stone Congash Stones Dunachton Stone Findlarig Stone Grantown Stone Inverallan Stone Lynchurn Stone
Moray	Birnie Symbol Stone Burghead Bulls Burghead (fragment) stone Dandaleith stone Drainie Carved Stones Easterton of Roseisle stone Elgin Pillar Inveravon Church stones (4) Rodney's Stone Sculptor's Cave symbol wall carvings Sueno's Stone
Inverness	Balbair Stones Culaird Stone Dores Stone Drumbuie Stone Garbeg Stone Invereen Stone Kingsmills Stone Knocknagael Stone Lochardill Stone Torgorm Stone
Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire	Ardlair Stone Aquhollie Stone Brandsbutt Stone Broomend of Crichie stone Cairnton stone Dunnicaer stones Dyce stones Fordoun Stone Fyvie Stones Kintore stones Logie Elphinstone Stones Maiden Stone Migvie Stone Monymusk Stone Nether Corskie Stone Newbigging, Leslie Stone Newton Stone Picardy Stone Rhynie Stones Tillytarmont Stones
Angus	Aberlemno Sculptured Stones Balluderon Stone Camus Cross Drosten Stone Dunnichen Stone Eassie Stone Glamis Manse Stone Hunter's Hill Stone Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones Monifieth Sculptured Stones St Orland's Stone St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Strathmartine Castle Stone Woodwrae Stone
Perth and Kinross	Bullion Stone Dupplin Cross Meigle standing stones
Fife	Abdie stone Scoonie Stone
Orkney	Brough of Birsay Greens Knowe of Burrian
Shetland	Breck of Hillwell Cunningsburgh

High crosses

High crosses
Anglo-Saxon	Bewcastle Cross Crowle Stone Easby Cross Gosforth Cross Legs Cross Ruthwell Cross Sandbach Crosses Sheffield Cross Stapleford Cross Wolverhampton Pillar Halton Cross
Irish	Ardboe High Cross Bealin High Cross several at Clonmacnoise Cloonshanville High Cross Emlagh High Cross Iona Abbey Abbey of Kells Kildalton Cross several at Kilfenora Kilkieran High Crosses Killaloe Cathedral Killamery High Cross Moone High Cross Muiredach's High Cross and others at Monasterboice St. Mark's Cross St. Tola's Cross several at Tuam
Pictish	Camus Cross Dupplin Cross
Cornish	King Doniert's Stone