The mirror and comb are Pictish symbols of uncertain function,[1] found on Class I and Class II Pictish stones.
[2] The mirror, or mirror and comb, do not belong to the body of main Pictish symbols, but are used as modifiers of a symbol pair.
The mirror and comb have been found carved into slabs near the burial of men and at least one woman.
[3] Joanna Close-Brookes, writing in 1981, suggested that the presence of the mirror and comb on a burial stone indicated societal rank, discounting earlier hypothesis that it indicated wealth.
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