Field Visit
Date 12 October 2002
Event ID 1018395
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018395
This memorial stone. 1.1m in height, stands immediately E of the road about 70m N of the primary school. The stone is depicted on the current edition of OS Mastermap.
During the 1870s the Ordnance Survey recorded this as the site of a medieval cross: ‘applies to the site of an ancient cross which at one time stood here. The people continue to perform the ‘Dessil’ round it in all funeral processions well on into the present century’ (OS Name Book 13, 16). The site was depicted thus on the 1sy and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire (Skye) Sheet LXXI, 1879 and 1904).
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Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 12 October 2002
