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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 674462
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/674462
NM60NW 4 6394 0964.
(NM 6394 0964) Grave (NR)
OS 6" map (1900)
An enclosure, reputedly the grave of Eithne, the mother of St Columba, is situated on the top of the ridge to the SW of the monastic settlement. It is 11' in diameter, marked by a circular setting of stones, but is it not known whether it contains one or more graves; though it is said that when opened many years ago the bones of a female were found. Two small upright slabs are in the NE sector of the circle, and another in the SW, one of the former bears an early incised Greek cross.
Muir describes site as "a pile of loose stones laid together like altar and flanked by a short pillar bearing an incised cross (? leacht).
T H Bryce and G A F Knight 1930
As described above.
Visited by OS (AC) 8 April 1970
(1) On Eithne's Grave, a circular 'special grave' overlooking the site (NM60NW 4), is a gravemarker, 0.71m by 0.4m, bearing an incised equal-armed cross with pitted terminals and a short spike below the base.
I Fisher 2001.
