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'Bigla's Chair'
Stone (Period Unassigned)
Site Name 'Bigla's Chair'
Classification Stone (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 15456
Site Number NH92SW 4
NGR NH 9317 2043
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15456
- Council Highland
- Parish Duthil And Rothiemurchus
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH92SW 4 9317 2043.
(NH 9317 2043) Bigla's Chair (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
A large fragment of rock said to have been used by Bigla Cumin (early 15th century cf. NH91NW 4) as a 'loupin'-on-stane' in her journeys to and from the church at Duthil. It is also said that on this stone she received the rents of her estate (Mitchell and Drummond 1875) The stone is not unlike a chair in form (NSA 1845)
A Mitchell and J Drummond 1875; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
Unable to locate this rock, area now covered by a dense plantation.
Visited by OS (R L) 2 November 1966.
