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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 699144
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NS20SE 11 2924 0118.
(NS 2924 0118) Machrikil (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1967)
No trace remains of the chapel known as Machar-a-chill. The name has been associated with St Machar, but the order of the words makes this unlikely; it was probably a place-name, "the field of the chapel" (C L Curle 1964). It was removed by Mr Coupar of Whitehill, in 1850. It measured 13ft N-S by 8ft, with rubble walls 1ft 6 ins thick, standing 5ft maximum height. No trace of any graves was found during the removal, and cutting of drains at the site. A massive, stepped cross base, cut from a single block of freestone, 4ft 2ins high, stood 80ft from the SW angle of the buildings; it was moved 60ft N to its present site. A cross-carved boulder, found within the building, was placed besided the cross-base noted above. Its date is unknown, but the type of simple Latin cross carved on it might well be early; possibly it was carved on the stone long before its probable use as the base of a free-standing cross.
The site was subsequently fenced in and planted.
W Galloway 1882; G Turnbull 1908
