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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 700123
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/700123
NS45NE 11 4786 5682.
(NS 4786 5682) Neil's Stone (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1970)
A tradition exists of a combat between two chiefs named Arthur and Neil. Both died of their wounds, the former being buried at the site of the Arthurlie Cross (of 10th - 11th century date: see NS45NE 5) while the latter was buried at Cross Stone Brae south of Neilston village, where a sepulchral cross is known to have been standing at the end of the 18th century.
T E Cooke 1873
The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB), indicating that "Neil's Stone" had stood here, repeats the tradition, and adds that the parish name derives from it. However, Barrow states that the parish name presumably means "Nigel's tun or manor", the Nigel or Neil in question probably being a sub-tenant under the Crocs (of Crookston) in the 12th century.
Name Book 1857; G W S Barrow 1973
No information regarding the present location of this stone was obtained during field investigation. The site is at present a piece of waste ground.
Visited by OS (JHO) 12 March 1951.
