St Adamnan's Cross
Site type CROSS SLAB
Canmore ID 24531
Site Number NN64NW 4
NGR NN 6253 4768
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish FORTINGALL
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County PERTHSHIRE
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Archaeological Notes
NN64NW 6 6253 4768.
The simple incised cross of St Adamnan stands on the S side of the road a little way beyond Craig Dianaidh (Creageanie: NN 627 477), between Slatich and Camus Urachan.
T R Barnett 1944
The small upright slab with a cross on either side, one of them very small, stands on a knoll called Tom a' Mhoid, "the moot hill".
W J Watson 1926
NN 6253 4768. This small cross-slab, inclined to the S, was located at the side of the road on top of a mutilated natural knoll. It measures 1.2m high by 0.5m broad, and varies in thickness from 0.4m at the base to 0.15m at the top. Name "St Adamnan's Cross" confirmed.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JB) 19 September 1975
| Books and References |
Barnett, T R (1944a) Rannoch and the Summer Isles,
Page(s): 65-7
Watson, W J (1926) The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland: being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916, Edinburgh
Page(s): 271 Held at RCAHMS C.4.2.WAT
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