Archaeology Notes
Event ID 723633
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NX55NE 1 5604 5615.
(NX 5604 5615) Supposed Site of (NAT) Church and Grave Yard (NR)
OS 6" map (1910)
Traditionally, a church and graveyard once stood here, which probably gave rise to the name of Kilbride farm on which it is situated. No historical account nor authentic information about it can be obtained in the locality. An alternative name of Kirkbride (site of) is given.
Name Book 1850
Kirkbride Church and Graveyard: A circular banked area with an adjoining rectangular enclosure beside the stream. Possibly a 5th-6th century church site.
I F MacLeod 1969
The remains of the graveyard consist of an earth-and-stone bank with outer facing stones occasionally visible on the SW. Ploughing has reduced the bank in the NE, and in the NW it has either been destroyed in the adjacent field or its course is followed by a modern field dyke. The entrance is in the ESE. There is no positive trace of the chapel, although there are the remains of a wall outside the graveyard to the SW. Name confirmed.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 2 March 1972
As described in the previous field report.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 21 June 1977
