Archaeology Notes

Event ID 662499

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/662499

NH66NW 9 60 66.

The Priest's Sepulchre. The Statistical Account (OSA, 1791) states 'On the north side of the river Skiack, and nearly opposite the village of Drummond, a grave of an oblong form lined with stone in the same manner as those described above (short cists), it is called the "Priest's Sepulchre", and is 7ft long, 3ft broad and 3 1/2ft deep.'

This sounds like a denuded rectangular chamber. This might be the site seen by Pococke in 1760 lying between Foulis Castle and the Allt Graad...'a cairn with two stones set up before it; in a cell with five stones'... in which bones were found.

OSA 1791; R Pococke 1887; A S Henshall 1963.

No further information. Cairn not located.

Visited by OS (R D L) 5 May 1963.