 Washing revealed faint traces of pigments, mainly red, have survived on the original stone suggesting that it was once highly coloured.The slab is reminiscent of one from Summerston, now in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, which was also made by the Second Legion and which similarly depicts a helmeted horseman and naked captives.Other distance slabs by the Second Legion have been mapped with RTI and include 
one from Balmuildy 
and another from Duntocher.