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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 848003
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/848003
NJ36SW 3.01 33967 63455
INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE:
Address: Essil Burial Ground, Essil, Garmouth, Moray
Postcode: IV32 7LE
Status: Closed for burials but maintained
Size: 0.19 hectares, 0.47 acres
Polygon: Yes
TOIDs: 1000000172980675
Number of gravestones: 278
Earliest gravestone: 1727
Most recent gravestone: 1978
Description: Graveyard associated with a church (church now demolished). Some old parts of the demolished church used as walls on which to mount tables. Several large enclosures. Evidence beneath turf of cobbled entrance path from old gate. A very wide mixture of gravestones. From early 18th Century table stones, flat stones, tablets mounted on walls of enclosures, to Victorian upright stones and Commonwealth War Graves Commission military stones. 23 stones have been located beneath the turf. All very typical of a local rural burial ground, but many related to the Geddes or Geddie family, for many generations prominent shipbuilders at Speymouth.
Data Sources: Graveyard Recording Form 27 September 2002; OS MasterMap checked 13 June 2005.
