Archaeology Notes

Event ID 654324

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM48NE 19.01 4887 8533

See also NM48NE 24.

Casts of 4 cross-slabs and a late 14th c. cross shaft at St Donan's are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) together with that of parts of a head and shaft of another cross featuring a hunting scene.

D Monro 1549; OPS 1854; RCAHMS 1928, visited 1925; M Martin 1934; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1933; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1934.

The 14th c cross-shaft is mounted on a modern base on a rise to the S of the church, and the head and part of the shaft of another with similar decoration lies against it.

Visited by OS (AA), 8 May 1972.