Archaeology Notes

Event ID 680521

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO04SE 10.00 Centred on NO 08238 40010

NO04SE 10.01 083 400 Hagart of Glendelvine Monument

For present parish church (NO 0882 4008), see NO04SE 45. For dressed and cross-incised stones, possibly from this church, built into a wall at NO 0839 4002, see NO04SE 12.

(Area: NO 083 400) The old church of Caputh stood on the rising ground of Mute Hill, c.600 yds. W. of the present (1798) church, and where the burial- ground still is. It is said to have been built by Bishop Brown, c.1500.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1839

Within Caputh Old Kirkyard is a small square building (? mortsafe) with '1500 and 1819' in incised early 19th c lettering.

The Delvine Vault - Mute Hill, is the chancel of a 1500 kirk, squared off about 1798 and given a pyramid roof.

Scottish Development Department (SDD) 1963