Barnhill, 'eglismonichty'
Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Site Name Barnhill, 'eglismonichty'
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Elsmonechtie
Canmore ID 33392
Site Number NO43SE 11
NGR NO 4776 3248
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33392
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
NO43SE 11 4776 3248
NO 4776 3248) Site of (NAT) Chapel (NR) formerly called Eglismonichty (NR)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., (1923)
'Ecclesmonichty' was situated on a rise overlooking the Dighty Water opposite Panmure Bleachfield. Its stones were removed in 1806 to build Balmossie meal mill. The Lady Tree still marks the site.
A Jervise 1859.
The chapel was dedicated to St Andrew.
A J Warden 1880-5.
No traces of chapel or tree now exist in a cultivated field.
Visited by OS (J L D) 30 April 1958.
Field Visit (1962)
While searching for mesolithic traces in the valley of the Dighty, on a knoll steeply overlooking the river the scattered remains of a large number of human skeletons, much disturbed by ploughing, were found. The teeth of these skeletons were remarkable in that dental attrition was confined not to the molars but to the incisors and canines, and these were worn to gum level.
Elsmonechtie is by legend the site of an early Christian cell.
Crerar, R. 1962. 'Elsemorechtie, Monifieth'.
Reference
What appears to be the internal NW angle of the pre-reformation chapel razed c 1765, was found after removal of topsoil during building operations in 1983, 20m NW of the site marked on the OS map; the remains consisted of a band of stone fragments c 1m wide, intermittent over c 15m, lying due EW, and, at 85 degrees to this, less than 1m of wall-face of undressed stone 1 to 2 courses high, built dry. The disturbed remains of a large number of human skeletons were found in the area in 1962.
R Crerar 1962; G W H Mecham 1984.
