Bishop's Wood, Archbishop Sharp's Memorial And Tomb Of Cullin

NO41NE 2 4562 1514 and 4584 1454

For Grave of Five Covenanters (NO 4554 1511), see NO41NE 3.

(NO 4561 1515) Place of Archbishop Sharp's murder (NR) (AD 1679)

(NO 4583 1455) Tomb of Cullin (NR)

who was executed for the murder of Archbishop Sharp (AD 1683).

OS 6" map (1920)

Archbishop Sharp was murdered on Magus Muir, near St Andrews on 2nd May 1679, by a party of fourteen men led by Balfour of Kinloch and Hackston of Rathillet.

A Lang 1909

In the midst of a clump of trees (immediately west of Claremont Farm) is a tombstone in memory of Andrew Gullin, weaver in Balmerino, one of the two executed for the murder of Archbishop Sharp. It bears the inscription "...Andrew Gullin, who suffered at the gallows tree of Edinburgh, July 1683..." etc.

Name Book 1854

The monument marking the place of Archbishop Sharp's murder was erected by J Whyte-Melville in 1877 and he also renewed Gullin's tombstone.

D H Fleming 1881

Archbishop Sharp was one of the chief persecutors of the Covenanters. His oppressions and cruelties were so great that in 1679 he was murdered by a band of Covenanters under Hackston of Rathillet, on Magus Muir, near St Andrews.

Low and Pulling 1910

Date given as 3rd May 1679.

J Grierson 1841; P Hume-Brown 1911.

A modern pyramidical monument bears a latin inscription stating that this is the site where Archbishop Sharp was murdered in 1679. Gullin's tombstone near Claremont Farm, is a plain erect slab bearing the inscription as stated by Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB).

Visited by OS (JLD) 18 October 1956

OS (JLD) confirmed.

Visited by OS (RDL) 28 May 1964

Scheduled as Archbishop Sharp's memorial, Magus Muir.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 March 2001.