Archaeology Notes

Event ID 680204

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO02SE 88.01 0800 2030

(NO 0800 2030) Oliphant's Monument, AD.1329 (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

An incised monument in the churchyard of Aberdalgie. Commemorates Sir William Olifurd or Oliphant, the defender of Stirling Castle against Edward I in 1304. It is one of the finest of the few incised monuments which remain in Scotland. It lay over the grave in the church and when that structure was taken down it lay exposed to the weather until in 1780 it was protected by a stone slab.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896-7.

This very fine incised monument is now in the church at Aberdalgie (NO 0794 2025). A wall plaque confirms the information given by MacGibbon and Ross 1896-7.

Visited by OS (W D J) 28 October 1965.