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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694844

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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(NR 7462 8335) Burial Ground (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1924)

One or two grave stones have been pointed out at this spot.

Name Book 1867.

E of line of old road through Forestry Commission woods, a thick wall runs out from rock-wall on the E to form a rounded enclosure. Probable ruins inside wall, and small flat stones, probably grave-markers. A flake of rock leaning out of the low cliff bears on its W face a cross. Stone 4'2" x 3'; cross within an incised ring, 1'8" in diameter; stem at bottom 7" long x 4" wide maximum. The design of the cross is closely paralleled by that of the St Peter Stone at Whithorn (6th-8th century). M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.NR78SW 14 7462 8333.

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