North Uist, Vallay, Teampull Mhuir
Cross (Early Medieval)
Site Name North Uist, Vallay, Teampull Mhuir
Classification Cross (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) St. Ultan's Chapel; St Mary's Chapel
Canmore ID 319511
Site Number NF77NE 18.02
NGR NF 7857 7638
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319511
- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (28 July 1914)
STONE CROSS (FRAGMENT).-In the same graveyard and used as the head-stone of a grave is the fragment of a cross, 2 feet 4 inches long and 9 inches broad, only one arm and the greater part of the shaft remaining. The arm is 12 1/2 inches broad and projects 4 inches from the shaft, and at the angles where they intersect is a semicircular hollow 2 1/2 inches in diameter not carried through the stone. This is surrounded by a hollow moulding, which probably has been carried round the edge of the cross.
Visited by RCAHMS 28 July 1914
Reference (2001)
(2) Fragmentary cruciform stone of dark hornblende-schist, 0.65m in visible surviving height by 0.26m and 100mm thick. A sketch by Muir in 1855 shows what appears to be this stone with both side-arms almost intact, but it now preserves only one half of the shaft and the corresponding side-arm. The surviving lower armpit is square, but the left edge of the E face has a bead-moulding which curves to enclose an oval inner armpit 30mm deep.
(T S Muir 1885, 47; E Beveridge 1911, 297-8; RCAHMS 1928, No.166).
I Fisher 2001
