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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652303

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/652303

NC92SW 19 9105 2091.

'The Abbot's Head' is the name given to a rudely carved stone head preserved in the garden wall of the manse.

New Statistical Account (NSA, G S Taylor) 1840

No trace of this figure was found at the manse (NC 9105 2091) and the occupier Major MacCall has no knowledge of it.

Visited by OS (W D J) 2 June 1961

No further information.

Visited by OS (R L) 21 Feburary 1968

A 'three-faced Celtic god' from an unknown location in Sutherland was in the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, but is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession no: IA 46).

Information from NMAS Mss catalogue

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