Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675474

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM82NE 14 85776 25900

(NM 85776 25900) Cross (NR) (Restored)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)

This cross, 3.13 metres high and 0.69 metres across the arms, was re-erected on its present site in 1926, having lain in pieces in Kilbride churchyard for over 200 years. According to local tradition, it originally stood beside an old road running SE from the coast at Gallanach (NM 82 27) to the Lowlands, which crosses the modern road about 200 metres north of the entrance to the churchyard.

The cross, which has been carved from a single block of greenish schist is profusely inscribed and was originally erected by Archibald Campbell of Lerags in 1516.

J R Allen 1881; J S Richardson 1927; RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1971.

Information from G Livock, (photo), 1940.

As described.

Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Visited by OS (R D) 8 September 1971.