Archaeology Notes

Event ID 698574

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS08NW 8 01847 89204.

(NS 0185 8920) Burial Ground (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1900)

This spot is well known as an old place of burial, said to have been used by the people in the neighbourhood. There is no tradition of a church having existed near the spot.

Name Book 1870

The remains of an oval burial ground measuring 40m NNE- SSW by 25m bounded on the N by a burn, on the W by an old field dyke, and on the E by a probably original stone bank.

Within the burial ground are the slight remains of a rectangular building measuring c.6.5m ESE-WNW by c.3.0m between turf-covered stony walls 3.0m wide and 0.3m high which is possibly the remains of a chapel.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (DWR) 21 November 1972

INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE:

Address: Kildalven, Burial Ground

Postcode: PA22 3AB

Status: No longer extant

Size: N/a

TOIDs:

Number of gravestones: Not known

Earliest gravestone: Not known

Most recent gravestone: Now known

Description: Burial ground possible associated with a chapel, no longer extant

Data Sources: OS MasterMap checked 21 September 2005