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Field Visit
Date 19 April 1989
Event ID 1112634
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1112634
An important collection of Early Christian sculptured stones was recovered from the fabric of the church and within the burial-ground, and others were found in re-use nearby (NO24SE 25). A number of these stones eviently once stood on the N side of the burial-ground, and, together with a mound which still survives, were believed (according to a tradition at least as old as the third quarter of the 16th century) to be the remains of a grave and monument of Guinevere (or Vanora). In 1805, in the course of road construction on the N side of the burial-ground (at this date unenclosed) and close to two sculptured stones (NO24SE 25.01 and .02) which stood to either side of the gate, the remains of 'at least two rude stone coffins, containing bones' were found. In 1855, excavations (by Jervise) at the foot of stone NO24SE 25.01 (to the W of the gate) revealed 'pieces of rude flag stones, with decayed bones underneath', and, at a depth of 0.3m below these, 'two or three other slabs... and a still greater quantity of human remains'; about 0.3m to the W (in an area apparently already disturbed) 'fragments of bones and old stone slabs' were found, and, at a depth of 0.76m, and probably pre-dating the erection of the sculptured stone at this spot, an east-west orientated extended inhumation. 'In this case... the head and foot were respectively guarded by two small flag stones, which were placed in an angular position' (possibly grave-markers). Within the burial-ground there are a number of 17th- and 18th-century gravestones.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 19 April 1989.
A Jervise 1857.
