Camusterrach
Cross (Period Unassigned), Dun (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Sanctuary Marker (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Camusterrach
Classification Cross (Period Unassigned), Dun (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Sanctuary Marker (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 11745
Site Number NG74SW 4
NGR NG 7096 4160
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11745
- Council Highland
- Parish Applecross
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG74SW 4 7096 4160
One of the Applecross sanctuary crosses/stones, a "rude monolith 8 ft. 3 ins. high and bearing traces of a cross on its W. face", (T Muir 1855) stood on the dun at Camusterach but it was destroyed by a stone mason repairing the Free Church (now the Church of Scotland) c. 1870. The stump survives at NG 7096 4160 (Information from K Macrae, Blind Institute, Inverness) amongst the outbuildings of a croft, and measures 0.4m high, 0.6m wide and 0.3m thick.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
No trace of a dun was found.
Visited by OS (R D) 29 April 1965; T Muir 1855; W J Watson 1904 and 1926; S Gordon 1935.