Glenfarg Lodge, Pottie Chapel

NO11NE 11 1644 1516.

(NO 1644 1516) Glenfarg Lodge on site of Chapel and Graveyard (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A Chapel called Kirk Pottie, mentioned in 1583 (R W Fraser 1857) stood at the point where the River Farg issues from the mountains into the plain. Only the buried foundations remain. Human skulls and bones are sometimes dug up or discovered, in the face of a bank by river erosion, at the site.

OSA 1793; R W Fraser 1857.

No trace of a chapel or graveyard was found during field investigation.

Visited by OS (W D J) 4 August 1965.

Pottie is mentioned in 1574 (as 'Poty'), 1582 and 1592, and ceased to be a place of worship in 1622. The site of the chapel was where Pottie Mill (now Glenfarg Lodge) stands.

D Butler 1897; Information from M Morrison.

Clearance of ground at the back of Glenfarg Lodge revealed a large quantity of human skeletal material. With the bones were two stone grave markers. One stone is unmarked; the other bears the incised representation of a pointed shaft or sword within an incised border. The stones are now in Perth Musuem. The Kirk of Pottie or Poty stood here until 1622. Report with SDD(AM).

M E C Stewart 1978.

Two grave slabs, and archive relating to the excavation of Pottie Chapel, Glenfarg, by members of the PSNS Archaeology Section reported in DES (1978) have been deposited in Perth Museum under accession number PMAG: 1983, 752-55.

Sponsor: Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences, Archaeology Section.

A G Reid 1984.

Nothing is visible of either the chapel or its burial-ground.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 28 November 1996.