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Crois
Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Crois
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 7180
Site Number NC92SW 22
NGR NC 9011 2343
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7180
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Crois, Sutherland, cross-marked rock face
Measurements:
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NC 9011 2343
Present location: the cross is no longer visible.
Evidence for discovery: recorded on the east bank of the River Helmsdale at Kildonan and thought to have been a garth boundary stone (along with the nearby cross-slab, Clach na H-uaighe, Canmore ID 7166). It had weathered away before RCAHMS fieldwork in 1909.
Present condition:
Description
The rock is said to have been incised with a cross.
Date: uncertain.
References: RCAHMS 1911, no 376.
Compiled by A RiCtchie 2016
NC92SW 22 9011 2343.
(NC 9011 2343) Crois (NR).
OS 6"map, (1963)
'Crois' is the name given to a projecting rock which is said to have borne an incised cross on its SW face, and to have marked the northern boundary of the sanctuary of Kildonan (NC92SW 18). The cross had weathered away by 1909 and no trace of it can now be found.
Visited by OS (W D J) 3 June 1961; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; A B Scott 1906
