Field Visit
Date May 1984
Event ID 1082766
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082766
This 18th-century burial-enclosure is situated on a wooded peninsula on the N shore of Loch Ederline, bounded on the W by the outflow of the Ford River and on the E by a bay separating it from the site of Old Ederline House (en.1*). It measures 7.4m square within walls of lime-mortared rubble masonry 0.55m thick and terminating in a slab coping at a height of 2.1m. The entrance-doorway, in the E wall, has a lintel and jambs with rounded arrises, all of chlorite-schist; a stone above the lintel bears the incised date 1727. There are six shallow recesses for mural tablets in the w wall, and four more in the E wall, but all are empty. Two headstones in a metal-railed enclosure to the N commemorate Alexander Campbell of Ederline, who died in 1841, and his wife and children. The older enclosure was presumably built as a burial-place for earlier members of the same family.
RCAHMS 1992, visited May 1984
