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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Western Isles
  • Parish North Uist
  • Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
  • Former District Western Isles
  • Former County Inverness-shire

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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

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