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Field Visit
Date July 1982
Event ID 1082924
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082924
A large round-topped headstone of sandstone stands about 40 m from the shore at the foot of a wooded hillside SE of Ardnoe Point. It was erected by his widow, lsabella Eston, to commemorate John Black, 'feuar and fish curer in Greenock, who died of cholera on board of his schooner Diana, and was intered (sic) here 28th July 1832 aged 45 years’.
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1982