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Field Visit
Date 28 May 1914
Event ID 1105007
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105007
Effigy, Kilmuir Churchyard.
In Kilmuir Churchyard is a stone slab 6 feet 3½ inches in length and 2 feet 1 inch in breadth, bearing the effigy of a knight in armour carved on it in high relief. The figure represents a man with a conical helmet (bascinet) on the head, with a camail on the shoulders over a quilted coat reaching to the knees. The hands encased in glaives are held in front, the left hand, with knuckles outward, grasping the top of his sword sheath, in which is a sword 3 feet 6 ½ inches in length with depressed quillons and a fan-shaped pommel divided into seven segments. The sword belt and attachment on either side of the hand are still visible with a buckle suspended. The right hand, palm outwards, holds an indeterminate object, perhaps the end of the belt. The figure measures 5 feet 7 inches in length to the heels, the feet and the object on which they rest having been obliterated.
To the dexter side of the head is a plain uninscribed panel, while in the sinister are two rectangular panels with an inscription in Gothic characters running longitudinally, which, so far as legible, reads: HIC JA CETE
Round the edge of the slab is an incised double beading, and on the flat on either side of the waist is a foliaceous design.
RCAHMS 1928 No. 536, visited 28 May 1914.
OS map: Skye iv (unnoted).
