Archaeology Notes

Event ID 646181

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR76SW 42 7020 6394

A gravestone was recorded during survey of Kilberry and Coulaghailtro farm by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division in 1999 (Survey site 16). The stone is on machair, immediately adjacent to the shore. It is trapezoidal in shape, bearing at the top the legend "A Sailor's Grave" and lower down on the same side the name "A. Henderson". A Henderson was the mason and the grave is that of a sailor cast up on the beach in the 1840s (M Campbell, pers comm).

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MS/725/226 GUARD 708.4