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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 666615
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/666615
NJ40NW 5.00 43235 05651
NJ40NW 5.01 NJ 43247 05646 Cross-slab
(NJ 4322 0564) Church (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902)
Not to be confused with Migvie, Old Parish Church (NJ 43668 06839 to NJ 4365 0682), for which see NJ40NW 2.00.
The parish church of Coldstone stood a little north of centre of the graveyard until removed at the end of the 17th century when the parish was united with Logie, and nothing remained in 1866.
Name Book 1866.
Coldstone was a prebend of Aberdeen and the church was dedicated to St Neachtan of Mortlach (H Scott 1915-61) Phillips suggests a dedication to St Wallach (Information from the Dark Age Index, by C W Phillips) (This refers to the ancient church at Logie Mar).
Within the churchyard (in use as the headstone of a grave) is an oval slab of whinstone, 1 foot 10 inches long, by 11 inches wide by 3 1/2 inches deep with a Celtic cross incised upon it.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; H Scott (Fasti Eccles Scot) 1915-61.
