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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 697486
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/697486
NS02NE 6.00 0586 2970
NS02NE 6.01 Rock: Cross-incised
A short distance from St Molaise's Cave, on the low ground is an almost circular sandstone rock; its top has been levelled, and four seats cut on the sides. At the S side of the rock, evidently, steps led up to the top, one of the steps being made out of the rock; at the N end a handgrip is cut on the upper edge, and lower down a foot- hold has been made. The diameter of the top is 7ft, the circumference, 31ft, and height 7ft 1in. On the E face, a cross with a ring top is cut. Some pilgrim crosses may also be seen. This stone is now locally called "St Molaise's Table"; Wilson (1863) refers to it as the "Saint's Chair", while another informant from Arran called it the "Judgement Stone".
At the lower side of this rock, there is placed a roughly chiselled stone with a shallow circular depression. Probably it was used for holy water.
J Balfour 1909; D Wilson 1863.
