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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 662742
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/662742
NH74NE 10 77 48.
The Bishop's Stone is a rounded block of reddish-grey granite with a round basin carved in it and recently defaced by a chiselled groove across the face. It is 4ft long by 3ft 8ins broad by 1ft 8ins thick and the basin is 6" across and 2 1/2 ins deep with vertical sides. Traditionall this was used by the Bishop at stated periods for baptism in pre-reformation times.
The stone is on an elevated ridge in a wood on the farm of Balnabual near Dalcross Castle and 7 yards south of an old unused road from Croy to Dalcross.
W Jolly 1882.
There is no local knowledge either at Balnabual or Dalcross Castle of a stone with the above dimensions. (See NH74NE 21)
Visited by OS (N K B) 17 December 1964.
