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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660426
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660426
NH53SE 3 5718 3466
(NH 5718 3466) Sculptured Stone [NR] (Site of)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905).
See also NH53SE 4.
A beautifully sculptured Grave Stone in Killianan Grave- yard, similar in design to many of those on Iona, and sketched by Col Sir Henry James RE in October 1868.
O S Name Book 1870.
One of two flat stones lying together is decorated with a Maltese cross, probably pre-Reformation. At the foot of the cross is the outline of a shears, but this is probably more modern. The accompanying stone is plain.
W Jolly 1885.
This decorated stone described by Jolly is in Killianan graveyard (NH53SE 4), at the published site. It is a prostrate grave slab which, according to Mr Stewart, who sent a 'rubbing' to National Museum of Antiquites of Scotland, dates from about the 14 century.
Visited by OS (N K B), 27 April 1970.
