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Killianan Graveyard, Cross-slab

Cross Slab (Early Medieval)

Site Name Killianan Graveyard, Cross-slab

Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Killianan Burial-ground; Killianan Grave Yard

Canmore ID 12618

Site Number NH53SE 3

NGR NH 5718 3466

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Inverness And Bona
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Killianan (St Finan), Inverness-shire, cross-slab

Measurements: H 0.55m, W 0.42m, D 0.15m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NH 5716 3466

Present location: lying face down in the north-west part of the old burial ground at Killianan above the west shore of Loch Ness.

Evidence for discovery: found during clearance in 1989, lying face-down in the old burial ground.

Present condition: the carved lines are clear.

Description

This irregularly shaped slab is incised with a linear cross with expanded terminals.

Date: seventh to ninth century.

References: DES 1989, 27.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017

Archaeology Notes

NH53SE 3 5718 3466

(NH 5718 3466) Sculptured Stone [NR] (Site of)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905).

See also NH53SE 4.

A beautifully sculptured Grave Stone in Killianan Grave- yard, similar in design to many of those on Iona, and sketched by Col Sir Henry James RE in October 1868.

O S Name Book 1870.

One of two flat stones lying together is decorated with a Maltese cross, probably pre-Reformation. At the foot of the cross is the outline of a shears, but this is probably more modern. The accompanying stone is plain.

W Jolly 1885.

This decorated stone described by Jolly is in Killianan graveyard (NH53SE 4), at the published site. It is a prostrate grave slab which, according to Mr Stewart, who sent a 'rubbing' to National Museum of Antiquites of Scotland, dates from about the 14 century.

Visited by OS (N K B), 27 April 1970.

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