Canna, Conagearaidh
Grave (Post Medieval)(Possible), Stone (Post Medieval)
Site Name Canna, Conagearaidh
Classification Grave (Post Medieval)(Possible), Stone (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Garrisdale Point
Canmore ID 10715
Site Number NG20NW 1
NGR NG 2160 0576
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10715
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG20NW 1 2160 0576
Stone [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1976.
(Area NG 217 058) A standing stone of basalt, 3ft high, situated 3/4 mile NE of Garrisdale Point, on a grassy terrace beneath the cliffs, where there are foundations of old farm buildings. It is within the remains of an enclosure, and has three plain sides, the fourth bearing a circular sinking from which 3 incised lines radiate downwards.
(RCAHMS 1928).
NG 2166 0576. A dressed rectangular block facing NNW-SSE with the hole and the lines (Looking rather like a large OS bench mark) on the SSE face. Obviously fairly recent, and possibly a rough sundial.
Visited by OS (A A) 1 June 1972.
Field Visit (4 July 1925)
Standing Stone, Garrisdale Point.
On the grassy terrace beneath the cliffs, ¾ mile north-east of Garrisdale Point, are foundations of old farm buildings lying on either side of a small burn. Within the remains of an enclosure is a standing stone of basalt 3 feet in height, tapering from 1 foot 2 ½ inches to 1 foot 1 inch in width, and 7 inches in thickness. Three sides are plain, but on the other face there is, 8 ½ inches from the top, a circular sinking 1 ½ inches in diameter and 2½ inches deep, from which three incised lines, each 6 inches in length, radiate downward.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 4 July 1925.
OS map: Islands of Canna and Sanday (Inverness-shire) lix (unnoted).
Field Visit (7 April 1995)
(Formerly classified as stone: incised; burial (possible). Amended to stone; burial at NG 2160 0576). A roughly shaped stone is situated within an enclosure on a terrace below the steep cliffs at Conagearaidh. Rectangular in section, it measures 0.35m by 0.12m and stands 1m high, and has a bored hole 50mm deep 0.2m below its top. It is unlikely to have been a sundial, and is probably an old gatepost. It is almost certainly the stone recorded by Thom, which he misplaced at NG 209 053.
About 5m to the W, a crudely mortared base of stones supports a wooden cross at the SW end of a shallow rectangular depression 2.4m in length; an unshaped stone lies at the NE end. The depression probably indicates the position of a grave.
(Canna 778-9).
Visited by RCAHMS (IF, ARG), 7 April 1995
A Thom 1967; NMRS, MS/430/107.
