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Reference Number: SSC/13
Name: Clach na Ciplich Description: Cross-incised Slab Present Location: Cnoc na Crois ND 1057 3946 Original Location: as above
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Reference Number: SSC/13
Name: Clach na Ciplich Description: Cross-incised Slab Present Location: Cnoc na Crois ND 1057 3946 Original Location: as above
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| Notes: At a very remote site on the moorlands southwest of Thulachan lies the remnant of a cross-incised sandstone slab. A photograph from the early twentieth century shows three fragments of the stone at the site, but there now seems to remain only the largest of these (see IMCC No 149). The shaded portions on the accompanying sketch are missing. This sort of monument is very difficult to date with any confidence, but it certainty predates the sixteenth-century origin that local folk traditions give (see SINC p188). |
