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A' Chill 15 Description of stone
Event ID 1013260
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013260
A’ Chill 15 (St Columba), Canna, Skye & Lochalsh, carved stone
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Stone type:
Place of discovery: NG 2691 0540
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: this stone was in the early burial ground close to cross no 12 in the mid nineteenth century. After the island was cleared of tenants in 1851, a farm manager is said ‘to have broken up carved stones from the old graveyard at Keill and used them in building; two particularly fine ones were hidden by local patriots who buried them in some spot that is now unfortunately forgotten’ (Campbell 1994, 161).
Present condition:
Description
Details unknown
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Campbell 1994, 161.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
