Monument record MHG280 - Cross Slab, Crois Bheinn

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Location

Grid reference Centred NM 5944 5427 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM55SE
Old County ARGYLL
Civil Parish MORVERN
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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Full Description

St Columba's Stone, a cross-marked stone 0.4m high and 0.3m broad, one of a series of stones marking the old road over the hills (a right of way recently obstructed by a forestry fence).
One of the other stones is called the Lamp Stone - where a lamp was lit to signal to the people of the western shore. It was not possible of ascertain which stone this name referred to.
OS revision 30 November 1974.

(NM 5945 5428) Stone (NAT) OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Cross-decorated Stone, Crois Bheinn: Propped up beside the old track that runs over Crois Bheinn from Drimnin to Loch Teacuis, on the highest point of the route, there is a roughly fashioned and battered cruciform stone, fractured down the centre, it measures 0.61m in height by 0.51m in greatest width.
On what was presumably the front (a - on RCAHMS illustration) there is a cross within the remains of a ring, both in relief, while on the back (b) is a sunken Greek cross. Nothing is known about the history of this stone, but the fact that it appears to have given its name to the hill ('Cross Peak') indicates the antiquity of the site.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1973.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Crois Bheinn, Morvern.. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1980. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona). . 137, No. 281; illust.

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Record last edited

Apr 9 2008 5:17PM

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