Aerial view of Church and churchyard
B 49268
Description Aerial view of Church and churchyard
Date 1991
Catalogue Number B 49268
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 537306, SC 1676346
Scope and Content Aerial view of Tarbat Church and churchyard at Portmahomack, Ross and Cromarty There may have been an Early Christian monastery at Portmahomack. Excavations have revealed a group of long-cist burials, which may be an indication of early Christian activity. Around this church which is of medieval origin but dates mainly to 1756, there are traces of a cropmark which resembles the vallum or enclosure at the monastery in Iona. The vallum marked the boundary of the Early Christian monastery. Three grave-markers with simple inscribed crosses have been found, as well as many fragments of Pictish carved stones which probably date to the 9th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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