# 001_SITES

References:
Mathews 1890; Calveryley 1890a; Leech 1982; Leech and Newman 1985; Newman 1989


References:
Radford 194; Lowe 1991; 1993; 2000; forthcoming


References:
Radford 1951c; Crowe 1987; Cassidy (ed) 1992


# 002_SITE SUMMARY

Notes:
8th/9th century bronze plaque from the site


Notes:
Possibly identified with the Patrician foundation of Domnach Combair


Notes:
thought to be attached to Nendrum: souterrain ware found


Notes:
Speculation. Believed to be Achad Cinn where Cathib was bishop (AU 555)


Notes:
documented first in the 12th century, but though to have been founded by Colman Elo in AD600


Notes:
church tradition; possible drystone remains


Notes:
building;church tradition: 10th century bronze flask


Notes:
monastic tradition (earliest source for St Maughold - Jocelin)


Notes:
keeill tradition: stone built structure on the sit


Notes:
keeill tradition: stone built cell and a northern


Notes:
further stone structures evident on the site


Church notes:
early features thought to be retained in the churc


Notes:
cemetery tradition: report of souterrain on the si


Notes:
souterrain; according to the Tripartite Life, St Patrick left St Olcan at Rathmuigia or Arthirmugia, chief town of the Dal Redini


Notes:
keeill tradition: possible cell identified


Notes:
cemetery tradition; monastic tradition; cell name


Notes:
documentary; Monastery founded by St Comgall. Best documented after Armagh (AU 555)


Notes:
Patrician traditions -Church identified with Dun Sebairci


Notes:
Patrician tradition? 'Church of St Ptarick's dwarf'; kil name


Notes:
Patrician traditions: souterrain; Possibly the site of Drumman Findich where Patrick left Enan


Notes:
Hamlin states that there are early documentary sources for site


Notes:
souterrains known on the site; Connor documented through 6th and later (AU 513)


Notes:
church tradition: possible cells identified


Notes:
many documentary sources: early medieval finds


Notes:
well documented between the 7th and 9th centuries


Notes:
Dunchu, abbot of Tullylish was killed in the abbot's house, by the shrine of St Patrick (AU 809)


# 003_BURIAL

Notes:
furnished grave of the Viking period; churchyard burial


Notes:
lintel graves, aligned in one row between standing stones and Terally motte


Notes:
graves (no lintels) found when a new house was built


Notes:
lintel graves, two of which underlay the keeill walls


Notes:
lintel graves - found to predate the mound surrounding the keeill


Notes:
human skulls and other bones identified, assumed to be on ancient site


Notes:
lintel graves, sone of which passed under the walls of the keeill


Notes:
unclear if the goods are associated with the burial


Grave goods:
sword; halberd; pennanular brooch; ring-headed pin


Grave goods:
sword; shield boss; comb; bone; millstone; whetstone; bridle bit


Notes:
lintel graves found inside chapel and also in nearby fields


Notes:
lintel graves reported outside the keeill


Notes:
traces of burials recorded, but absence of stone structures observed


Notes:
lintel graves found during excavation for outhouses


Notes:
stone graves found on W side of Kildonan Hill


Notes:
lintel grave cemeteries - in a location not according to with Fransiscan practice


Notes:
graves, some of which predated the medieval chapel


Notes:
graves found in the vicinity of a possibly early chapel


Notes:
lintel graves, one of which predates the keeill


Notes:
lintel graves, some of which underlay the keeill


Notes:
lintel graves found during excavation of a drain


Notes:
lintel graves, some 70yds from supposed site of keeill


Notes:
lintel graves found in the vicinity of a keeill


Notes:
lintel graves found along N wall of church


Notes:
undisturbed graves encountered, covered in white pebbles


Notes:
human bones encountered during ploughing - no lintel stones


Notes:
two Scandinavian swords encountered by gravediggers to SE of church


Notes:
boat burial identified by clench nails, beneath the later stone chapel (12th century)


Notes:
possibly associated with later chapel (12th century)


Notes:
remains identified when a knoll was cleared


Notes:
human bones found during construction of a sheep dip


Notes:
find of a sword and bones during building of a house


Notes:
vast quantities of human remains found when area was cleared


Notes:
report of a stone built grave, and a book with 'Irish characters', which crumbled on opening!


Notes:
stone built graves identified in adjoining field


Notes:
dug graves,  only one of which cut another


Notes:
skeletons reported to have been found in the vicinity


Notes:
decribed as the site of an extensive cemetery, which had been entirely subject to tillage


Notes:
lintel graves thought to be associated with an early structure


Notes:
stone built grave, thought to underlie the keeill


Notes:
lintel graves, arranged in parallel lines


Notes:
lintel grave cemetery, considered to be late 9th century


Notes:
numerous graves found through ploughing and slabs reported protrudnig from the ground


Notes:
burials found in 1926 and also in during recent excavations


Notes:
lintel grave seen protruding from the cliff


Notes:
stone lined graves reported only 20 yards from the site


Notes:
lintel graves recorded by Kermode - no further information found


Notes:
stone cist reported 50yds from keeill site


Notes:
ship burial located in the vicinity of the keeill


Notes:
identification of stone slabs, possibly derived from a lintel grave


Notes:
lintel graves recorded on map, no further info


Notes:
stone coffins reported - assumed lintel graves?


Notes:
stone lined graves reported to have been removed; containing human remains


Notes:
stone lined graves found 'time to time' during gravedigging


Notes:
descriptions, though said to be prehistoric, of typical lintel graves


Notes:
stone graves - turned up in feld; no evidence remains


Notes:
found on the northern part of the graveyard


Notes:
lintel graves discovered during ploughing and cliff erosion


Notes:
suggests that the area was never closely defined


Notes:
skulls and graves reported 'all over the place'


Notes:
burials without lintel graves found in area


Notes:
burials reported within and outside the enclosure


Notes:
lintel grave burials reported in adjoining field


Notes:
graves reported by the supposed keeill site


Notes:
lintel graves (17) found during excavation and others during ploughing


Notes:
stone lined graves found around this site


Notes:
stone lined graves found in natural gravel mound


Notes:
lintel graves found within the keeill, on a different alignment, and in surrounding area


Notes:
stone cists found - marked on Ordnance Survey 1870


Grave goods:
tortoise brooches; bronze bowl; textile?


Notes:
log coffin burials - followed stone lintels


Notes:
sword and shield boss found in the vicinity of the stone lines graves at Balladoyne


# 007_INSCRIPTIONS

Translation:
of Bivaidu, son of 'Mucoi' Cunava (Connell)


Translation:
? Anglian personal name.  Later Blakeman…


Inscription:
X….NEITSpLI EppS dEI INSLV(S?) + ?ET, …bPAT


Translation:
[a.b.erected] this [cross] to the memory of Ofeig, his father, but Gautr Bjornson, of Colley made it


Inscription:
…X MAIL:BRIKTI:SUNR:AÞAKANS:SMIÞ:RAISTI:KRUS;ÞANO:FUR:SALU:SINA:SIN:BRUKUIN:KAUTX KIRÞI: ÞANO:AUK ALA: I MAUN

Translation:
Mael Bridge, son of Athakan, the smith, erected this cross for his own soul (+that of) his brothers wife. Gaut made this and all in Man


Translation:
[a.b. erected] this cross to the memory of….


Translation:
Olaf LiÞtulfson erected this cross to the memory of Ulf his son


Translation:
Thorstein erected this cross to the memory of Ofeig, son of Crina


Translation:
[a.b.] erected this cross to the memory of [c.d.]


Translation:
Druian, so of Dugald, raised this cross to the memory of Athmaoil, his wife…


Inscription:
…UN SIN:  IN: ONON:RAITI…  …[IFT] FAIRTHUR: BR…

Translation:
[a.b.] erected thus cross to the memory of c.d] his son, but raised another to the memory of Fairthur


Translation:
Grim erected this cross to the memory of Rumund [Hromund] his brothers son


Translation:
[a.b. erected this monument to the memory of] Grim the Black


Translation:
Sandulf the Black erected this cross to the memory of Arinbjorg his wife


Translation:
Mael-Lonchon erected this cross to the memory of Mal-Mura his foster [mother], daughter of Dugald, the wife whom Athisl had


Translation:
Better it is to leave a good foster than a bad son


Translation:
Joalf, son of Thorolf the Red, erected this cross to the memory of Fritha, his mother


Translation:
Thorleif Hnaaki erected this cross to the memory of Fiacc his son


Translation:
Odd raised this cross to the memory of his father Frakki, but Thor...


Translation:
But Kross-Ketill betrayed in a true his own oath fellow


Translation:
Thorbjorn raised this cross [to the memory of...]


Translation:
a.b.erected this cross to the memory of asrith his wife daughter of Odd


Translation:
a.b. son erected [this cross] to the memory of his wife muriel...ukifat and rathfrid...-land?


Translation:
Christ, Malaki and Patrick and Adamman! But of all the sheep is John  (the) priest in Cornadale


Translation:
Hedin set this cross to the memory of his daughter Hlif


Inscription:
+ tunwinisaete aeftetoroz naefterhisb aeurnaegebidaesthe rs//as  //lae. Lythi // sw[o..]

Translation:
tunwine pit up [this] cross in memory of his lord (son?) tohrtred. Pray for the soul. Makers signature


Inscription:
TE [DOMI]NV[.] LAUDA[.V.] LATINU[S] ANN[OR]V[.] XXXV E[T] FILIA SV[A] ANNI V [I]C [S]INUM [FI]CERUNT N[I]PVS BA[R]ROV[A]

Translation:
we praise you lord. Latinus age 35 and his daughter age 5. The grandon of barrova made this sign


Translation:
[in the name of] Jesus Christ, Branhui brought water to this place


Translation:
This token of victory [victory cross] Hwaetred…gaer…and set up in memory of .lcfri


Translation:
Sig[-]SE set this up in memory of Suitberht


Translation:
of the powerful king/ of the king's power


# 008_PROVENANCE

Earliest recorded location:
set in leacht known as St Patrick's chair, 'Margher-y-chairn' or Lord's field


Earliest recorded location:
found in course of excavations, 30cm below ground, face up. 60cm deeper, graves were found


Earliest recorded location:
found in an ancient well in the lower corner of the glebe field adjoining churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
found during grave digging in churchyard, 6yds north of possible ancient keeill. possibly stone of a lintel grave


Earliest recorded location:
found by Rev John Howard, reused as a lintel in an outbuilding of the vicarage


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 'in Braddan church', possibly stood in a socket in churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
built into north transept of Peel Cathedral


Earliest recorded location:
built into east wall of north transept of Peel Cathedral. Removed in 1906


Earliest recorded location:
found during repairs to Maughold church, lying along south wall of church


Earliest recorded location:
originally in west wall of north transept. Removed 1906


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1900 built into the fabric of Maughold church, near east gable


Earliest recorded location:
found in Maughold parish church 1900, against south wall, near west end of the church, 15cm below the surface


Earliest recorded location:
found 1906 during excavation of old churchyard by vicar of Marown, lying on back, 45cm below the surface at the south-east corner of the buuilding. Appeared to cover disturbed lintel grave


Earliest recorded location:
found near the east end of Maughold church during repairs of 1900


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1878, recovered 1850 from an old keeill, 120yds west of the house, now ploughed


Earliest recorded location:
found at Maughold during renovations of 1900, in side of grave near the north west corner of the church, 60cm below the surface


Earliest recorded location:
pointed out in 1899, in roadside hedgerow at Ballagilley, near Maughold church


Earliest recorded location:
found in rubbish by workmen repairing Maughold church, at a depth of 1m or more from east end of north church


Earliest recorded location:
found by Kermode in 1876, used as a lintel in an outbuilding of a cottage on the green by Maughold church


Earliest recorded location:
used as a headstone in Maughold churchyard, north of the gallery, before 1887. Second stone found in excavations of 1900, near the same side


Earliest recorded location:
found in the vicarage garden at Maughold


Earliest recorded location:
used for many years as upper step leading into a barn opposite the vicarage


Earliest recorded location:
brought to Kermode in 1894 from Ard Cooillean


Earliest recorded location:
brought to Kermode by Mr Haslam of Ballaglass. Found in 1893 near the old chapel which formerly stood at the dam, 150yds north of the house


Earliest recorded location:
apparently dug up from 6ft underground when the church foundations were dug for the new church at Santan in 1782


Earliest recorded location:
marked by 1864 OS map at Ballacorris, near Keeill Sulbrick


Earliest recorded location:
originally found by Kermode in west wall of Braddan church, moved 1880s into parish church


Earliest recorded location:
probably found between 1865 and 1907. Head broken when stone blew over in 1894


Earliest recorded location:
in 1907 stood 20m south of church porch. Was recorded there in 1841


Earliest recorded location:
from Kirk Lonan. Probably found between 1892 and 1907. Probably from kirkyard or restoration


Earliest recorded location:
found in wall adjoining church yard in 1890


Earliest recorded location:
noted in 1841 on a mound 50 yards north of Old Kirk Lonan church yard, immediately north of road to church


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1906 used as a lintel over the west door of Marown church


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1841 in roadside hedge opposite entrance to main entrance of churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1892 as the headstone of a modern grave, 20yds from the north door


Earliest recorded location:
appears to have been found in St Patrick's church, Peel, during restorations of 1873


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1878 on site of 'ancient Christian graveyard at Keeill Bolthane on Bradda farm'


Earliest recorded location:
noted in 1798 on roadside at Port-y-Vullen. Oswald places this north side of the Ramsey to Maughold road (OS 1866). Cummings states that this is from the keeill site of gob ago


Earliest recorded location:
drawn 1841 (kinnebrook) when it stood in plantation near glenroy farm. Then built into 2 separate buildings, from whence Kermode rescued them in 1890s. Kermode notes an oral tradition that they came from ballaleaney farm


Earliest recorded location:
Kermode saw this stone in Keeill Chiggyrt on Ballafayle before 1872


Earliest recorded location:
found during demolition of an old barn at the vicarage in 1875


Earliest recorded location:
C.F.Hutton recorded in 1875 that the stone was found during gravedigging in old Lezayre churchyard. Rev Bridgeman told Kermode that it was found before 1879


Earliest recorded location:
found lying in churchyard - had been used as a step


Earliest recorded location:
had lain flat on a grave near the east window of the church (1841). Possibly an in situ recumbent


Earliest recorded location:
seen 1836 used as a stile at upper end of churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
standing in socket - first recorded in 1841


Earliest recorded location:
found on a heap of stones near Maughold churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
Kinnebrook records that the stone was found a short distance north of the church tower


Earliest recorded location:
came from old keeill, Cardle, prior to 1894 by Reverend Harrison


Earliest recorded location:
north side of Onchan church, had previously been one of lintels (possibly)


Earliest recorded location:
returned to churchyard from garden in village


Earliest recorded location:
found after a fire at Bishopscourt, Michael, in1893


Earliest recorded location:
seen 1860 as a lintel over the east window the Maughold church. Removed 1900


Earliest recorded location:
used as a lintel for the west door of Maughold church. Replaced 1900


Earliest recorded location:
found 1858-9 during dismantling of the external stairway at Kirk Maughold. Stairs had been built before 1717


Earliest recorded location:
recorded by H.R.Oswald. Identified as from keeill 120 yards north of Balnahon farm buildings


Earliest recorded location:
oswald (1823)  recorded the stone lying against Braddan church. Original site unrecorded but most likely within the churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1900 repairs close to the east window of Maughold church


Earliest recorded location:
found 1901-6 'from Maughold…by the vicar' probably during the 1900 restoration


Earliest recorded location:
in 1790 stood just before the church gates. In 1860 reused as a step for the sundial


Earliest recorded location:
in 19th C had stood for many years on the green in front of Kirk Andreas church


Earliest recorded location:
in 1840s had been on the churchyard wall


Earliest recorded location:
originally from the old burial ground at Ballaqueeny farm, and was known as Clagh Ard (high stone). Then resued in a cowshed opposite the inn. In 1907 placed at corner of road from Port Erin to Port Mary


Earliest recorded location:
found in burial ground of the old parish church, which 'probably occupies an ancient site'


Earliest recorded location:
for many years formed the lintel over the east window of keeill at West Nappin


Earliest recorded location:
found loose by Kermode on the wall of Jurby churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
found when old church of St John was pulled down in 1850


Earliest recorded location:
found 1900, at foundation of the north west corner of the church


Earliest recorded location:
first found 1885 in vicarage rockery at Andreas


Earliest recorded location:
turned upside down and reused as a gravestone


Earliest recorded location:
Braddan churchyard. Cumming (1840s) recorded that it had been used as step in the church


Earliest recorded location:
reused as a lintel in the rectory stable at Andreas


Earliest recorded location:
found near the barracks of peel castle during excavations and repairs


Earliest recorded location:
unknown - location 'forgotten'; assigned to Michael on similarity with no. 89


Earliest recorded location:
found in alterations of 1857-65 in west gable bell turret


Earliest recorded location:
found when old kirk bride church was levelled c. 1869


Earliest recorded location:
placed for safekeeping behind a wooden gatepost in a field adjoining Jurby parish church


Earliest recorded location:
found by Cumming in corner of malew churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
reused as a gravestone in Kirk Andreas graveyard


Earliest recorded location:
reused as a lintel in outhouse of a dwelling - 'the Mansion', Maughold, Ramsey. Possibly from the ancient church of Ballure, 1/2 mile from Ramsey


Earliest recorded location:
probably found when the church at Bride was pulled down in 1869


Earliest recorded location:
found in the corner of a churchyard at Jurby


Earliest recorded location:
in 1840s formed part of the church wall, then was moved into the church porch


Earliest recorded location:
found in churchyard wall at Kirk Michael


Earliest recorded location:
possibly used as building material in the old church


Earliest recorded location:
stood in Kirk Andreas churchyard, 7m west of the tower. Moved into the church, and then to the north side of the tower


Earliest recorded location:
found on wall, at north side of the church gates


Earliest recorded location:
had stood previously by the road in the middle of the village, near the north corner of the churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
found 1869 at the site of an old keeill off the highroad to douglas


Earliest recorded location:
on mound in the churchyard. Had previously been in the church tower


Earliest recorded location:
unsure of original location. Likely to be Braddan


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1870s in wall on Rhynne farm where there existed a chapel and graveyard


Earliest recorded location:
built into the east wall of the north transept of Peel Cathedral


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1889 in a bank by a stream by the wayside, at the upper end of the Corna valley. Probably from Keeill Woirrey, old chapel on slope of Barrule


Earliest recorded location:
thought to have been retrieved from the fabric of Old Bride church on demolition in 1865. Built into vestry - resited in 1892


Earliest recorded location:
20m NE of Kirk Maughold east gable of Middle keeill. Found in grave prior to 1906 - depth not recorded


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1910 during Manx Archaeological Survey excavations, 2.75m W of keeill site. Stood in field upright but inverted


Earliest recorded location:
found during Manx Archaeological Survey in 1910 - west end of keeill


Earliest recorded location:
found prior to 1910 in vicarage garden hedge, Jurby


Earliest recorded location:
found by the Manx Archaeological Survey in 1907 at Lag ny Keeillee. Used as a sill stone in east window


Earliest recorded location:
found in loose stones at Lag ny Keeillee in 1907, by the Manx Archaeological Survey


Earliest recorded location:
buried in rubbish outside west end of lag ny keeillee. Manx Archaeological Survey


Earliest recorded location:
found in ruins of keeill vreeshey, near altar, 1907-8


Earliest recorded location:
excavated 1907-8 in situ at unspecified point within the chancel. Covered a burial, 90cm below sill of chapels north door


Earliest recorded location:
found 1908 in the keeill at Ballaquinney, Marown, near the base of the altar


Earliest recorded location:
found in altar of keeill of Ballaquinney, Marown, among rubble 1908


Earliest recorded location:
found in Kirk Andreas churchyard. Inscribed with 17th C inscription but may be earlier


Earliest recorded location:
found in spring 1909 at unspecified point within Kirk Andreas churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
Kermode found this in keeill 'some years previously'


Earliest recorded location:
found 1911 on spoil heap of stones removed from keeill, probably during the Manx Archaeological Survey


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavations by Kermode in 1910, lying inside the keeill, 20cm E of inner edge of the S jamb of the door


Earliest recorded location:
found in garden adjoining Kirk Michael graveyard


Earliest recorded location:
excavated c. 1912 in Maughold churchyard, west of the west gable doorway of the E keeill, lying at floor level


Earliest recorded location:
found between 1912 and 1915 in Kirk Andreas churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
Kermode records that the farmer set up the stone at Middle Farm, Braddan - not in original position


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of east keeill in 1912


Earliest recorded location:
found 1911-4 in clerks house, adjacent to the church precinct


Earliest recorded location:
buried in the ruins of the north keeill at Maughold, end of a lintel grave


Earliest recorded location:
found loose in the hedges of the vicarage - possibly from Ballacurry keeill


Earliest recorded location:
now lying above Broogh near St German railway station. Oral tradition records that it was found near the keeill on Knock Sharry


Earliest recorded location:
records from OS survey books suggest that the stone was found in a keeill demolished to make way for St Luke's chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found 1920 at Ballaconley keeill, under a millstone


Earliest recorded location:
found by W Cubbon mortared into the west end of the south wall


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1925 in excavations of Cronk Keeillarie, support against north side of altar


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1898 when drains were laid to new house near the brooghs east of Port-y-Vullen. Use as the side of a lintel grave


Earliest recorded location:
found during repairs to wall on the south side of the churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
found on probable keeill site in 1928, near NE angle of 12th? century building, face down, 23cm beow surface. Above burial, but more likley displaced from wall


Earliest recorded location:
excavated on probably keeill site. Face down and associated with bone fragments and white stones

Current location:
kirk christ, lezayre, south wall of church porch


Earliest recorded location:
found on probably keeill site amongst rubble at west end of foundation of 12th? century building


Earliest recorded location:
found 1928 in foundations of 12th? century building. Face down, used as packing


Earliest recorded location:
incorporated into the 12th century building. Found in 1928, west of the south angle of the church, lying with cross face down between 2 uprights of a lintel grave


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1928, 30.5 cm above ground level of 12th century northern wall. Crumbs of bone nearby


Earliest recorded location:
excavated from the bottom of the east wall, 30.5cm above ground level. Face down. Traces of bone noted


Earliest recorded location:
from the west end of the south wall of the 12th century building on the keeill site


Earliest recorded location:
found on keeill site, possibly beneath the floor. Over the only furnished grave, cross up, on top of the skull


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of the burial ground


Earliest recorded location:
recorded on current site, but probably from submerged church


Earliest recorded location:
recorded on current site, but probably from submerged church. Had been reused as medieval gravestone


Earliest recorded location:
recovered from River Eden, likely from submerged church


Current location:
built into lowest course of chancel wall


Current location:
reused as lintel over blocked doorway at west end of north wall of church


Earliest recorded location:
recovered from church wall in 1903-4. Possibly part of the 1829 rebuilding


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1816 in churchyard socket, moved into the church 1903-4

Current location:
st kentigerns church, inside west end of nave


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1889, probably found during restoration of 1846-8

Current location:
st kentigern's church, set in wall of vestry, inside


Earliest recorded location:
found in dykeside of field behind vicarage, prior to 1898

Current location:
built into north wall of church, outside


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1899, but probably found during restorations of 1846-8


Earliest recorded location:
found during demolition and reconstruction before 1887, probably 1846-8

Current location:
st kentigern's church, inside, in south aisle


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1899, but probably from demolition in 1846-8


Earliest recorded location:
found 1878, probably from restoration of that year


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in 1878 in building rubble at the church


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in 1878 in building rubble at the church. Probably from restoration of that year. Had been recut as a window


Earliest recorded location:
as now. Recorded in present position in 1601

Current location:
churchyard, south of west end of the church


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in unpublished drawing at the foot of no. 188


Earliest recorded location:
found in 13th century robber trench during excavations of 1956


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1899. Probably found during restoration of 1864 or 1875-6


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1881. Probably found during restoration of 1864 or 1875-6


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1899. Probably found in restorations of 1864 or 1875-6


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1881. Probably found in restorations of 1864 or 1875-6


Earliest recorded location:
found beneath base of a late medieval cross in 1888, in churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in present position in 1892, possibly removed from the church in 18th C

Current location:
in south wall of a farm building at high aketon farm


Current location:
reused as a lintel over the south door of the church


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in lecture of 1893. Probably from restoration of 1844

Current location:
church, inside, south west corner of the nave


Current location:
church, inside, south west corner of nave


Earliest recorded location:
found 1857 in digging foundations in cathedral precinct


Earliest recorded location:
found in St Cuthberts Lane, Carlisle, before 1882


Earliest recorded location:
discovered in 1881 during construction in the cathedral precinct


Earliest recorded location:
found in south wall of the cathedral transept in 1855


Earliest recorded location:
found in restoration of 1880, among rubble in walled up north door of church


Earliest recorded location:
found in rubble during restoration of 1880. Wall claimed to be Norman by Collingwood


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1880, when digging a drain 2ft from the chancel wall


Earliest recorded location:
found 1880 while digging a drain near the chancel. 1ft6in deep, 2ft from north wall of the chancel


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in 1874 on churchyard wall, near entrance


Earliest recorded location:
found c.1900 when digging by a water pipe 'close to the church and deep in clay'. At castle in 1910 and in church by 1923


Earliest recorded location:
found in rubble during restoration of 1875, in rubble of the east wall of the church

Current location:
church, inside, set against south wall of chancel


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation in churchyard in 1982


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in fergusons ms inventory of c.1874 as 'stone coffin, roman'. Evidence suggests it may have been used as a trough near distington


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1794. Moved into the church between 1899 and 1901


Earliest recorded location:
found during restoration 1882, among rubble from the north side of chancel arch


Earliest recorded location:
found when placing grave cover in 1880 on the north side of the chancel


Earliest recorded location:
used 1879 as a gatepost, brought from 'place in the vicinity of Kirksteads' - recorded 1777 as a place of a chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found in churchyard before 1889. Second part found before 1889 during restoration beneath the altar


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1849 in the wall of a house in glassonby, moved to the museum in 1900. Suggested to be from submerged church at Addingham


Earliest recorded location:
found built into the north chancel doorway in 1843

Current location:
inside church, set in wall at east end of north aisle


Earliest recorded location:
first fragment recorded 1856. In 1883 identified as stone mentioned in 1799 and 1842 as 'kept in the parson's garden'. Right arm found in churchyard in 1897

Current location:
set in the wall at the east end of the north aisle, inside


Earliest recorded location:
found in june 1896, embedded in the foundations of north west corner of the north wall of the nave


Earliest recorded location:
found in foundations of east end of the north wall in 1897


Earliest recorded location:
carving noticed in 1882. Claimed to have been in the churchyard from at least 1789

Current location:
set in wall at east end of the north aisle


Current location:
built into the corner of the north aisle and clergy vestry


Earliest recorded location:
found in wall in 1900 during restorations. Used as a lintel over a concealed norman doorway


Earliest recorded location:
probably found during restoration in 1883. Mentioned in knowles lectures of 1876 and recorded in 1899

Current location:
built into the east wall of the church, outside


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1876 when 6 fragments were known. Disappeared in 1899, but rediscovered by 1926


Earliest recorded location:
found at eller bank, 10 feet under ground during road widening


Earliest recorded location:
found in wall of St Peter's church during examination of the fabric in 1893

Current location:
built into south wall of church, outside


Current location:
built into the north wall of the chancel


Earliest recorded location:
found in local garden wall in Irton. Probably identified with a fragment mentioned in 1878

Current location:
churchyard of st michaels church, muncaster


Earliest recorded location:
allegedly found in material from bridge near the church, demolished in m19th c


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1889 when stone was rebuilt into porch wall. Probably found during restoration of church in 1875


Earliest recorded location:
probably found during restoration of 1850. Placed in rockery in burial found in market place, before being returned to the church

Current location:
upside down on window sill in south aisle


Earliest recorded location:
found during restoration of chancel in 1847. Stephens says found 1870 in repairs


Earliest recorded location:
found in rebuilding of chancel in 1847. Lower fragment first recorded in 1936


Earliest recorded location:
found during restoration of chancel in 1847


Earliest recorded location:
found in wall of pigsty at redman cottage at north west end of silver street, kirkby stephen. Removed to eden place, hartley before 1911


Earliest recorded location:
found c1911 during repairs to market square - recorded in 1936 (rchm) as in yard of 33 south road


Earliest recorded location:
found in north wall of church in 1879, presumably during restoration of that year


Earliest recorded location:
first mentioned at knells. Suggestions that came from carlisle


Earliest recorded location:
first mentioned 1874, near raised mound called quayle burial mound


Earliest recorded location:
deuced by R.N.Bailey to be one of the stones taken from the Quayle burial mound


Earliest recorded location:
noted 1866 half buried in mound called Quayle


Earliest recorded location:
noted in 1936 to have recently come from mound in the south west corner of the churchyard. Known 1866 to have been buried in the ground


Current location:
built into the north wall of the church, outside


Current location:
built into the north wall of the chancel, outside


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1969 in the wall of Tynefield House, Penrith, by G.Nelson


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in Todd's drawing in 1690. Present plinth dates to 1887


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded between 1581 and 1591,and drawn 1664-5 by Dugdale


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in dugdales drawing of 1664

Current location:
north western hogback of the giant sgrave


Earliest recorded location:
identified in current position by Lang and Bailey in 1984

Current location:
in north wall of church tower, 4m from the ground


Earliest recorded location:
presumed to be from Penrith - painted on the back. Located in a sale of 1981


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1887. Probably found during restoration of 1870-1

Current location:
set in wall of church tower at first floor level


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1876 and likely found during restoration in either 1834 or 1870-1


Earliest recorded location:
found beneath the west front of the church before 1876


Earliest recorded location:
found before 1856 in church walling claimed to be Norman. Reused as building material

Current location:
lost, buried under the south aisle of the church


Earliest recorded location:
found before 1856 in church walling possibly norman. Reused between 1864 and 1871


Earliest recorded location:
discovered in church walling claimed to be of Norman date, before 1876


Earliest recorded location:
found march 1947 in garden of the Old Croft, Stanwix


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1911, acting as a lintel to easternmost window of south wall of the nave


Earliest recorded location:
found during building operations in or immediately before 1907, acting as a through stone in north chancel wall


Earliest recorded location:
found 1825 during rebuilding of the porch. Then reused as threshold. 1884-9 moved into the vestry


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1825 during rebuilding of the porch. Reused as a lintel between 1884 and 1889 moved to present position and set in ? Original socket


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1949, 2ft 6in deep in churchyard during gravedigging in south east of walton churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
salvaged from demolition rubble from monuments destroyed in churchyard in 1965


Earliest recorded location:
found 1887 reused in curwen vault beneath the church


Earliest recorded location:
found reused in curwen vault under church in 1887


Earliest recorded location:
found at bottom of tower wall, on floor level, near foot of belfry staircase


Earliest recorded location:
found 1887 reused in walling on north side of arched eastern entrance to from the nave to the chancel


Earliest recorded location:
found during digging of the tunnel to open the Curwen vault


Earliest recorded location:
found whilst digging tunnel to the curwen vault in 1926


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1926 whilst digging tunnel to the Curwen vault


Earliest recorded location:
apparently found in building material brought from Egremont, though not certain


Earliest recorded location:
possibly came from the submerged church in 1913

Current location:
churchyard near the south west corner of the church


Earliest recorded location:
noted 1951 subsequent to Radford's excavation, among rubble


Earliest recorded location:
initial excavation of 1884 on lowest step


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavation of 1884, as a sump for a drain close of outer face of wall across cave mouth


Earliest recorded location:
noted 1872 in drystone dyke running SE slope of Mull of Sinniness


Earliest recorded location:
wilson in 1886 says built into gable, but had been brought from a cottage (used as a sill)

Current location:
built into north gable on SW side of farmyard


Earliest recorded location:
noted in chruchyard in 1849. Illustrated by Stuart in 1856 - used as a headstone


Current location:
inside gate of private house, just north of parish church


Earliest recorded location:
mentioned in a MS list of crosses by Riddell 2.5m north east of Morton church


Earliest recorded location:
1757 - possibly in list of crosses. 1791 ref to an 'obelisk' in Penpont parish. Recorded 1793 in socket. Possibly in original position but may have moved


Earliest recorded location:
1757 - possibly in list of crosses. 1791 ref to an 'obelisk' in Penpont parish. Recorded 1793 - socket. Possibly in original position but may have moved. Cross base


Earliest recorded location:
'roadside cross' ploughed up at field gate, north of Cleuch cottage in 1978


Earliest recorded location:
first identified in inventory of 1887 (Grierson). No evidence for findspot, but possibly from Closeburn churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded by RCAHMS in 1912 in porch of modern church


Earliest recorded location:
shown in painting of 1793, and according to tradition was set up to expiate murder. Removed to friars carse, earlier passage - 1671-1748 cross standing by roadside between church and Drumcork, also mentions other stones


Earliest recorded location:
Stuart 1867 and Griersons running catalogue - stone found in digging a grave in churchyard of Durrisdeer.


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded by Thomas Johnstone 1826. Lost by 1958. 1964 found half buried at foot of garden of farm


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in Grierson catalogue of 1867. Stuart 1867 - found in old church, nothing certain known


Current location:
built into garden wall of kirkland of glencairn, retaining wall of churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
possibly stone recorded 1912. Found 1926 in repairs to churchyard wall


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1926 excavations of the interior of the church, between the west wall and the chancel steps


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1926 excavations of the interior of the church, near the east wall


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1926 excavations of the interior of the church, south side of kerb around recent child burial


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1926 in churchyard wall of former parish church site


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1926 during excavation of the interior of the church in 1926, in the area between the west wall and the chancel steps


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1887-90. Had been used as a rubbing stone for sheep, then 1890s as a font. Collingwood 1924 - in dyke close to present manse 1897. Charleson - found in N boundary wall. Unclear if from old church or used as boundary marker


Current location:
built into southern interior of irving mausoleum in burial ground of old church at luce


Earliest recorded location:
1912 said to have been recently found while a drain was being dug at the bottom of the garden then used as a step


Earliest recorded location:
noted in 1856 as 'font stone' from site of a possible early foundation


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in Grierson inventory of 1883. No more information.


Earliest recorded location:
mentioned in a document of 1787 as 'cross'


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in  1600, standing. In act of 1640 was deemed idolatrous and broken up


Earliest recorded location:
found in garden of ruthwell manse. Noted 1948 and moved into museum. Said to have been dug up by gravedigger


Earliest recorded location:
drawn by collingwood in 1917, as an ornamented door jamb 'recently dug up'


Earliest recorded location:
mentioned in local history to have been found in dyke of New Road, immediately after demolition of old church


Earliest recorded location:
recorded as piece of celtic cross picked up somewhere in parish


Earliest recorded location:
noted 1953 as having recently been found in churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1857, said to have been taken from ancient chapel further up valley near Laverhay


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1920 at wauchope burial ground. Church site adjacent to a motte


Earliest recorded location:
noted in churchyard in 1892, and put into the roofless church


Earliest recorded location:
said to have been found lying on its side close to field dyke in 1925. Later account states found by men building dyke, forming part of a lintel grave


Earliest recorded location:
found near to no.500, found built into dyke at east end of enclosure


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in rubble and clay over phase 3 chapel, near grave III


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in rubble and clay over phase 3 chapel, near 'unused' grave


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, outside north wall of chapel between turf and bedrock


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, built across lower south east wall of phase V tavern, near grave CC


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, near east end of grave II, above bedrock


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in rubble south of phase III chapel, by wall of phase IV house


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in loose rubble outside the south east corner of chapel, near graves


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in rubble and clay filling in phase III chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, outside south wall of chapel, in rubble above right hip and forearm of grave VII


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, embedded on top of remains of south wall of phase III chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, upside down in pit at front of altar in phase III chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, central part of back of phase III altar at east end of chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in loose rubble outside south west corner of chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in rubble and wall collapse outside south wall of chapel, above level of grave XXII


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in rubble and wall collapse outside south wall of chapel, above grave XXII


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, found resting on left shin of skeleton XXII


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, between graves XII and XIII west of chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, south west of chapel, just above bedrock near grave II


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, found in fragments within grave XXII


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, 4ft out from west wall of chapel, in west end of grave XX


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, in rubble and wall collapse south of chapel, above grave XXII


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, uncertain position


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of 1967, on surface south of chapel


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1895 near Auchenshinnoch farm. Said to have been removed recently from knoll 2-300yds to E, near old road. Reused in 18th C to reassert property righhts (later inscriptions), may not have been in original position


Earliest recorded location:
found on moorland on south west slope of Braidenoch hill. First recorded standing on present site in 1911


Earliest recorded location:
recorded first in 1849 on southern knoll called Crumnock Howe, and was erect. Traditionally a place of worship


Earliest recorded location:
possibly brought from Cairn of Daltallachan when it was demolished in 1850. Originally leaning against a dyke


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in 1849 by OS, in a field north of High Auchenlarie farmouse. 1856 Stuart notes stones on a knoll. Nr Bardneston burn - leads to Kirkclaugh


Earliest recorded location:
removed 1864 from a medieval route high above HA, leaned north in cairn of boulders


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence of discovery. Recorded current position in 1911

Current location:
built into front of cottage at roadside near argrennan house


Earliest recorded location:
found at edge of motte, first recorded there in 1742. Adjacent to Bardneston burn - links to 531


Earliest recorded location:
found used as a lintel in market house, 'the other day' (1880).


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1973 unstratified, during excavations, in thin topsoil on top of the outcrop


Earliest recorded location:
built into rascarrel bridge, recorded there in 1970. Recognised as anglian by crowe and subsequently removed in the 1985


Earliest recorded location:
found in rerrick churchyard in 1989, south west of the ruins of the church


Earliest recorded location:
noticed in old churchyard in 1916, on south west side of ruined church


Earliest recorded location:
'probably' from st cuthbert's chruch. Site unrecorded


Earliest recorded location:
in 1794 - statistical account - from farm of stroanfreggan - cairn with a rivulet past it - stones in that


Earliest recorded location:
found at the 17th C church of Hoddomcross before 1815


Earliest recorded location:
apparently found at 17th C church of Hoddomcross before demolition in 1815


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in nmrs photos on top of Hoddom old churchyard wall (1920). Unclear if from excavation or lying in churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
found in churchyard, photographed 1936. Subsequently built into churchyard wall


Earliest recorded location:
described as having been built into wall 1851, at 17th C church at Hoddomcross


Earliest recorded location:
referenced by R. Cramp surviving at Hoddom, possibly from Hoddom old churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
recorded as being at Hoddom Old churchyard by Baldwin Brown in 1915


Earliest recorded location:
found during William Galloway's excavation of Whithorn priory. Mentioned 1890. East range of priory under pathneat N wall of old cathedral


Earliest recorded location:
found built into foundations of old manse, N corner of glebe field, 1891


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence for discovery. First recorded in list of 1886


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence for context. First recorded as property of Lord Bute, 1911


Earliest recorded location:
recovered in excavations of 1967, from later medieval wall, built over stairway on north side of crypt


Earliest recorded location:
removed 1884 from wall of court behind house in high street


Earliest recorded location:
mentioned by Galloway in 1894, not recorded subsequently


Earliest recorded location:
probably stone mentioned by Muir in 1864 thrown up in grave digging


Earliest recorded location:
no provenance. Presumably from a private house in town


Earliest recorded location:
recorded as having been built into nave in 1968, but photographed in 1964


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded at priory in 1891. Found during Galloway's excavations


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded at priory in 1891. Found during Galloway's excavations, apparently under path to modern church


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence. Recorded 1867 and said to be in churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
probably one of 2 recovered from late medieval wall in 1967 on north side of crypt over stairway


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded at priory in 1891, apparently found during Galloway's excavations


Earliest recorded location:
found during modern excavations, at entrance to burial chapel


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in priory in 1891, apparently from Galloway's excavations


Earliest recorded location:
first clearly recorded in 1923. Suggested to have come from house owned by lord bute at gate to priory in 1911


Earliest recorded location:
found in george street, Whithorn in 1970 during structural alterations to clydesdale bank.


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence. First recorded in 1911 with other stone kept in the crypt


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded by Radford and donaldson in 1957. No further evidence


Earliest recorded location:
apparently found during william Galloways excavations


Earliest recorded location:
found in churchyard 15 years before Galloway's excavations (1869?)


Earliest recorded location:
found reused as building material in an old house in Whithorn, summer 1902


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in Whithorn prioy in1891. Apparently found during Galloway's excavations


Earliest recorded location:
found in priory before 1953. No more information


Earliest recorded location:
no information. Added to Romilly Allen's list in 1894. Not described until 1924


Earliest recorded location:
found in the chimney of an old house in king's row, Whithorn, demolished in 1927


Earliest recorded location:
recorded as found 1968. Location not known


Earliest recorded location:
probably that recorded from william Galloway's excavations 1889-91, in museum in 1923


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations - stratified in late 7th/early 8th century paving


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations - stratified in 12th century paving, adjoining building IV/17


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, unstratified


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, displaced in 14th C context


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, reused in 12th C structure, ? After phase of site clearance


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, reused in 13th/14th structure


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, reused in 13th/16th C graveyard


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, backfill of 15th C quarry pit


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, 14th C context


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, reused in 12th C structures


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, post holes in mid-late 8th C building


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, reused in 10th C building


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, in rubble of 11th C


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, in mid-late 7th C grave


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, in floor of 9th C church


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, reused in 10th C building over 9th Church


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, in path south east of the entrance to the burial chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, used a paving in l8thC surface outside burial chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, as graffitti on paving flanking 9th C church


Earliest recorded location:
found in modern excavations, in paving SE of entrance to burial chapel, 8th-10th C


Current location:
cemented on stump of S. wall of church, east end


Current location:
lintel in N facing door of the round tower


Earliest recorded location:
found near graveyard gate, W of church ruin


Earliest recorded location:
at house half way between Drumeeny and Culfreightrim. said to have come from graveyard on hillock, with building and stone lined graves


Earliest recorded location:
reported at supposed church site. Neither was located


Earliest recorded location:
moved to curent position from Magherintemple c. 1790

Current location:
stands on south side of the ballycastle-cushenden road


Earliest recorded location:
found in the roofing of a souterrain by Rev Carmody


Earliest recorded location:
N. bank of kells water, previously stood in cottage. Eported to have been found at Chapelfield, ancient church site opposite ridge of Kildrum


Earliest recorded location:
reported to have been reused in local kitchen


Earliest recorded location:
found in graveyard - previously surrounded by a cashel


Earliest recorded location:
north of church on east bank of small stream


Earliest recorded location:
found 1868 during gravedigging. 1927 rebuilt into church porch


Earliest recorded location:
described built into the wall of predecessor of Ramoan church


Earliest recorded location:
ruined church, oval graveyard, 'now destroyed'


Current location:
Stands on the south facing ridge above Armoy-Glenshesk road


Earliest recorded location:
from a graveyard. Other material from the site destroyed


Current location:
wall of private chapel, Clandeboye estate


Earliest recorded location:
set up SE of cathedral in 1897, removed from English Street


Earliest recorded location:
previously used as font. It is suggested that this is not from cathedral, but from Augustinian friars


Earliest recorded location:
previously stood in the market place in front of Dromore cathedral


Earliest recorded location:
stood in old graveyard of Drumgooland until 1778, when it was removed, and built into the school wall. Removed and reerected in current position


Earliest recorded location:
reported to have been dug up in 1840 in the churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
frags from rubble in church and from cashel


Earliest recorded location:
found near platform in cemetery W of church


Current location:
interior wall, McCann's bakery, nr Abbey road


Earliest recorded location:
from Holywood church, thought to have come from a ploughed out cemetery


Earliest recorded location:
found reused in souterrain. Later used for pounding whins


Earliest recorded location:
quoin stone in NE corner of E gable, outside. Recorded there 1923. Not indentified in 1960, 1974, 1982. Visible in 1984


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in current position in 1926


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in garden at croft house. Accidentally built into wall of house


Earliest recorded location:
seen in illustrations/sketches, and recorded as having been seen in 1615


Earliest recorded location:
excavated july 1968 from foundations of a corn drying kiln, where it had been reused


Earliest recorded location:
19 july 1925 - recorded as having come from keeill crore. No more details


Earliest recorded location:
found march 1960, lying face down, 30m beyond NE corner of keeill foundations


Earliest recorded location:
found june 1970, on slope below keeill site


Earliest recorded location:
found 1939 just within the churchyard gate, where it was reused as a gravemarker


Earliest recorded location:
found at the keeill on speke farm in 1941. No further details


Earliest recorded location:
found in june 1865 amongst small fall of stones from NW wall of old Kirk Braddan churchyard


Earliest recorded location:
found july 1981, standing 2.4m NE of NE corner of pillar stone in centre of mound


Earliest recorded location:
found 1910 'on top of but not part of' lintel grave near Greeba Mills. Later used in window of an outbuilding


Earliest recorded location:
found july 1971 on building site during mechanical excavation


Earliest recorded location:
discovered inside keeill, face downwards on top of stones on the surface


Earliest recorded location:
found 20 march 1980, whilst dismantling NE corner of keeill wall


Earliest recorded location:
found 20 march1980, dismantling N wall of keeill, centrally placed inside wall


Earliest recorded location:
found 29 august 1979 unstratified below surface and parallel with inner line of east wall of keeill


Earliest recorded location:
found september 1939, presumably from the kirkyard - nothing further known


Earliest recorded location:
excavated 25 march 1980 when dismantling the NE corner of the keeill wall 20cm from top of wall


Earliest recorded location:
found 28 march 1980 excavating central section of E wall of keeill, 60cm from base


Earliest recorded location:
found june 1983 in excavations outside St German's cathedral, in cemetery horizon reused in lintel grave


Earliest recorded location:
found 6 feb 1978 amongst loose stones outside N wall of cronk breck keeill. Recorded as having been returned to keeill from whence it came


Earliest recorded location:
found july 1983 in excavations of a medieval wall, NE of St German's cathedral


Earliest recorded location:
found between 1920-5 in ruins of old building at rear of house next to old vicarage on east side


Earliest recorded location:
discovered in southern churchyard wall early in 1929


Earliest recorded location:
details of discovery unrecorded, except that it was found at Keeill Chiggyrt immediately prior to registration in 1934


Earliest recorded location:
found early 1948, 11m W of E gate of churchyard, 1.2m deep


Earliest recorded location:
noticed in 1965 on slab removed from floor of cottage in village. Thought to have been brought from Port Mooar beach before 1905


Earliest recorded location:
unknown origin. Presumably from gravedigging


Earliest recorded location:
found near centre of churchyard in early 1980s, probably from gravedigging


Earliest recorded location:
appears to have been from graveyard. In shelter form 1973


Earliest recorded location:
excavated in 1935 from extensive burial site by village. Formed end of slab shrine grave


Earliest recorded location:
found 18 august 1937 during excavations of south section of revetment wall


Earliest recorded location:
found 1984 in rerendering of church walls, outside


Earliest recorded location:
origin obscure. Found in porch in 1936. Likely put there after 1928-30


Earliest recorded location:
found august 1928 in excavation of 12th C building, in lowest course of south wall


Earliest recorded location:
found october 1939, a few yards S of Ballamanaugh garden terrace, N of River Sulby


Earliest recorded location:
found 19 october 1926 in old wall on W side of Stoney road . Possibly from keeill


Earliest recorded location:
ploughed up 1959 on farmlands at Barroose


Earliest recorded location:
no more known than that it comes form the east side of Maughold church


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1913 in excavation, lying face down near altar of keeill


Earliest recorded location:
built into west end of the south wall of bimakin friary


Earliest recorded location:
possibly found in a wall between ballaclague and friary farm


Earliest recorded location:
first mentioned lying in the churchyard in 1907

Current location:
in display near south wall of churchyard


Current location:
inside church, on window sill in south wall of nave


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded when kept in vestry in 1925


Earliest recorded location:
dug up during 1875 during grave digging 'below the usual depth'


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded by J.T.Lang and R.N.Bailey

Current location:
built into the south wall of the chancel


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded by J.T.Lang and R.N.Bailey in 1971

Current location:
built into retaining wall on west side of churchyard, 9m from south west corner


Earliest recorded location:
first noted in 1965 by Taylor and Taylor

Current location:
upper section of inner shaft of east belfry opening


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in 1899 as 'recently' placed there


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations south of college hall in 1981 in fill of 20th century trench


Earliest recorded location:
ploughed up in a field in the area of Kirksteads


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in present position in1893

Current location:
set in exterior wall on south sid eof east window of south aisle


Earliest recorded location:
first mentioned at tullie house have been lying there for some years


Current location:
bottom of west jamb of chancel south window


Earliest recorded location:
known through rubbing in collection at nmrs (Rev. G. Wilson. Undated but known to be between 1848 and 1892). Believed to have been found at farm at Airyhemming)


Earliest recorded location:
recorded in present position in 1872. Found when lifting foundations of  an old outhouse, 130m from Barhobble

Current location:
built into wall of outhouse, 2.5m off the ground


Earliest recorded location:
recorded as having been built into Ardwell house, 'many years ago'


Earliest recorded location:
described as being just inside field gate by Rev G.Wilson, before 1899


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, among paving on the chapel floor


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, reused in floor of the chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, in upper tumble from enclosure wall


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, in debris from robbed south wall of church/chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, reused in foundations of smithy


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, found in sandy clay floor of church


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, found at east end of church in rubble from east gable


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, in clay floor at west end of church


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986, found in upper levels of baulk between church and chapel doorwayds


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavations of 1986 below the baulk south of between church and chapel doorways


Earliest recorded location:
found face down un upper layers of baulk between and south of church and chapel doorways


Earliest recorded location:
found in demolition debris from building A. probably built into the structure of the church


Earliest recorded location:
E of church, beneath founds of the smithy


Earliest recorded location:
mentioned in 1925 on barmore farm, set in modern shrine on inner side of field dyke. Reported to have been found 8 yrs ago (1917?) at old ford at the place


Earliest recorded location:
first noted by anderson in 1926 in byre at Boghouse farm, Mochrum


Earliest recorded location:
found 1922 in garden gate of Brighouse farm. Said to have been ploughed from near rocky knoll in 1890- foundations, but not east west


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1873 set in left hand pillar of farm steading gate. Taken '15 yrs ago' from field dyke and used as a step. Field dyke at bottom of Cassendeoch hill, S side of supposed site


Earliest recorded location:
found near chapel site, and recorded to have been donated in 1884 or 1885


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded at Monreith house in 1867, notes it have originally been found in foundations of old buildings on farm of craiglemyre , on estate of monreith. Appears to be whinny knolls


Earliest recorded location:
recorded as 'from Craiglemine' and donated the same time as no 374


Earliest recorded location:
recorded at Carleton farm, but thought to have been brought many years previously from Craiglemine


Earliest recorded location:
uncertain - contradictory reports.  1880 recorded as for 2 yrs having been used as a stile by the roadside, previously having been used at farm stable. Later concluded that this was from ancient village near the sea shore


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1884. From ancient village by the sea shore. Reused as guttering in byres


Earliest recorded location:
two stones recorded in notebook of ?1884 - one on garden wall, one by gate - not found


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1860 built into wall of watermill. Said to be from Kildonan chapel


Earliest recorded location:
found on Eldrig farm before 1902. Prehistoric cairn and farmstead known to be on the farm


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence for discovery - recorded as 'from Gleniron Several'


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded B.Wilson in 1878, seen in door of cottage in Glen Luce. Said to  have been found when digging in south west corner of graveyard, 4ft deep, near Liggats burial ground


Earliest recorded location:
found in drystone dyke, 200 yards n of the church in 1935. Dyke separates kilncroft holding


Earliest recorded location:
first published 1885, found 'last summer' in turning over debris above the chapter house - reused


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1849-50 in current position. OS 'found nearby in 1917'

Current location:
built into wall of house, 4m above ground


Earliest recorded location:
drawing published 1861. Photographed 'in old churchyard of Inch parish'


Earliest recorded location:
Reputedly from chapel called Kilmorie, of which no trace now remains


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1864 by TS Muir, serving as a headstone to the Milligan family


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1864 by TS Muir, next to stone serving as a headstone to the Milligan family


Earliest recorded location:
recorded by rcahms in 1912. Formed the original base to Kirkinner 1


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1810 standing in churchyard. Still there 1839, but reused in 1840 as gateposts


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1810 standing in churchyard. 19th century moved to Stoneykirk Manse


Earliest recorded location:
first noted in 1887, used upside down as a gravestone


Earliest recorded location:
turned up in graveyard, then built into graveyard wall


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1867 as a stepping stone in neighbouring dyke, said to be on path leading to burial ground


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1911 by Royal Commission. Unclear if reused or loose


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence. First published in 1898 in photograph, visible at the foot of Kirkmadrine 1


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence. First published in 1898 in photograph, visible at the foot of Kirkmadrine 2


Earliest recorded location:
recorded 1864 'within church' 1867 as a headstone in ruined church


Earliest recorded location:
found outside old church, in railed enclosure by 1911


Earliest recorded location:
said to have been found in 1907 in cultivated land called st john's chapel site


Earliest recorded location:
noted in 1794 at site, and sketched 1846. Thought to be part of stone circle, now disputed


Earliest recorded location:
found 1948 during drainage 1/4m NW of Larg Liddesdale adjacent to stream


Earliest recorded location:
used in cover of a built grave, found in 1920-1. Possibly from Kirkmaiden? Kirkland of Longcastle is actually a former parish site


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded 1875 in an old wall at the ruined house of laggangarn


Earliest recorded location:
drawn 1881. noted OS 1848. probably found in former church.


Earliest recorded location:
found November 1859 leaning against the dyke


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1859 in a pile of stones by the dyke


Earliest recorded location:
found as a grave slab. Noted 1860 near to a house of Low Curghie. Probably reburied


Earliest recorded location:
first recorded in Wilson's notebook - reused as lintel on new farmouse

Current location:
built into low eldrig farmhouse as a lintel


Earliest recorded location:
noted in 1795 at farm of Mains 'between Whithorn and Isle of Whithorn'


Earliest recorded location:
found at Mains of Penninghame farm, used as a step


Earliest recorded location:
first noted 1949-50 by Radford in current position. Cart shed in NW of church yard


Earliest recorded location:
no evidence for discovery. Recorded in list of 1889. Suggested to have been found in mochrum village, posssibly from the farm or from Boghouse farm


Earliest recorded location:
noted 1864 by Muir, who had known of it before. Speculated it was brought from nearby chapel site. But Stuart (1867) stated that it had stood on court hill at the mawer (mansion house). Maxwell - stone had stood on site before being moved in 1684


Earliest recorded location:
noted 1873 as lying at Putaldie farm by G.Wilson. Most likely from Killgallioch church site to the NE


Earliest recorded location:
documented 1889 'found in old fence near Rasnach, Wigtown'


Current location:
west wall of cave, 3.5m from cave end, 1.5m AGL


Current location:
west wall of cave, 5.4m from cave end, 0.8m AGL


Earliest recorded location:
noted 1924, 14.95m from cave end, 0.2m above ground level


Current location:
west wall of cave, 15.20m from cave end, 0.33m AGL


Current location:
west wall of cave, 15.5m from cave end, 0.31m AGL


Current location:
west wall of cave, 15.8m from cave end, 0.4m AGL


Current location:
west wall of cave, 15.7m from cave end, 1.04m AGL


Current location:
west wall of cave, 17.9m from cave end, 0.56m AGL


Current location:
west wall of cave, 18.1m from cave end, 0.67m AGL


Current location:
west wall of cave, 22.7m from cave end, 0.6m AGL


Earliest recorded location:
found during 2nd excavation of cave in 1886, possibly associated with disturbed burials. Crouched burials found


Earliest recorded location:
found in cave between 1881-3. Excavation


Earliest recorded location:
found 1881 lying on floor, having fallen out of wall along mouth of cave


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation 1884, reused as a step


Earliest recorded location:
found in initial excavayion of 1884, 3ft deep, close to wall across mouth of cave


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavation of 1884, 2 feet deep, close to west end of outer face of wall across cave mouth


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavation of 1884, lying in cave near steps


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavation of 1884, reused in a wall at the cave mouth


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavation of 1884, reused in wall across cave mouth


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavation of 1884, close to outer wall across cave mouth


Earliest recorded location:
found after excavations, location unknown


Earliest recorded location:
found in excavation of 1982. Site area A


Earliest recorded location:
found in levelling debris beneath 15th C rampart


Earliest recorded location:
found in 1987 excavations, as part of 14th C ramparts


Earliest recorded location:
found built into souterrain in 1878 by Rev Carmody of Connor. Found in roof


Earliest recorded location:
found at the edge of Kirkclaugh motte. First recorded in 1742


Earliest recorded location:
found during recent rescue excavation of a rhullick


Earliest recorded location:
found during excavation of keeill fabric


Earliest recorded location:
found during work at church, below floor


Earliest recorded location:
probably found with the first slab from Bishops Court


# 009_GEOLOGY

Geology specific:
medium grained pale grey/pink (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
coarse grained micaceous yellow (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
coarse grained micaceous yell (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous grey (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous yellow (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous grey (st bees, bleached)


Geology specific:
medium grained yellow (part reddened)(carboniferou


Geology specific:
medium grained pale yellow (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous pink (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous pale yellow (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
medium grained yellow (st bees, bleached)


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous pale pink (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
fine grained pink/grey, yellow/brown (permotriassic/st bees?)


Geology specific:
medium grained yellow (penrith, bleached?)


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous red (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
coarse grained micaceous pink (carboniferous)]


Geology specific:
medium grained micaceous yellow (st bees, bleached)


Geology specific:
medium grainde micaceous grey (carboniferous)


Geology specific:
medium grained red (st bees, kirklington)


Geology specific:
medium/coarse grained yellow, part reddened


# 010_PLACE-NAMES

Source:
Canmore NX25; Watson 1926, 164; MacQueen 1973, 19


Source:
Watson 1926, 167; MacQueen 1973, 20; Canmore NX26NE 9

Notes:
If dalr is ON, may be later in date (or may be a Norse addition to a pre-Nrose name)


Source:
Canmore NY06NE; Watson 1926, 165; Macqueen 1973, 24


Source:
Watson 1926, 165; Canmore NX13NW 7; MacQueen 2002, 46


Source:
Canmore NX14SW 7; MacQueen 1973, 20; Watson 1926, 166; MacQueen 2002, 47


Source:
Watson 1926, 126; MacQueen 1973, 20; Canmore NW96NE 22


Source:
Watson 1926, 167; Canmore NX04NE 7; MacQueen 2002, 47


Source:
Watson 1926, 170; Canmore NX96NE 37; MacQueen 1973, 140


Source:
Watson 1926, 162; MacQueen 1973, 21; Canmore NX04NE 1


Source:
Watson 1926; MacQueen 1973, 21; Canmore NX04NE 17, MacQueen 2002, 54


Notes:
Diminutive form of Patrick; located 12km NW of Ballymena


Notes:
W shore of strangford lough, 3km SE of Comber


Notes:
hamlet in townland of Croaghmore, 10.5km W of Ballycastle


Source:
Watson 1926, 169; MacQueen 1973, 24; Cameron 1968; Canmore NY17SE 11


Earlier versions:
Helsingtune, Helsington, -yng, Heselington, Haelsington

Meaning:
farmstead of those dwelling on the hals (=nexk of land, col, pass)


Earlier versions:
Hensingham, Helsingham, Hunsingham, Ensingham, Henzingham


Source:
Brooke 1983, 71; Canmore NX13NE 7; MAcQueen 1973, 21; Watson 1926, 163


Source:
Watson 1926, 166; MacQueen 1973, 21; Canmore NX77SE 23


Source:
MacQueen 1973, 22; Canmore NX45NE 3; MacQueen 2002, 54


Source:
Watson 1926, 166; MacQueen 1973, 20; Canmore NX45SW 11.00


Source:
Watson 1926, 165; Macqueen 1973, 20; Canmore NX24NE 2


Source:
Watson 1926, 167; Canmore NX74NE 17; Brooke 1983, 69


Source:
Watson 1926, 167; MacQueen 1973, 22; Canmore NX75NW 11; Brooke 1983, 69


Source:
Watson 1926, 168; MacQueen 1973, 21; Canmore NX95NE 33; Brooke 1983, 68


Source:
Watson 1926, 168; MacQueen 1973, 22; Canmore NX85NW 7


Source:
Watson 1926, 162; MacQueen 1973, 24; Jackson 1958, 302;; Canmore NX98SE 9; Fellows-Jensen 1983, 54


Source:
Watson 1926, 162; MacQueen 1973, 21; Cormack 1995 (Canmore) NX44NE 4


Source:
Watson 1026, 170; MacQueen 1973, 19; Canmore NW95NE 8017


Source:
Watson 1926, 161; Canmore NS80NE 2; Fellows-Jensen 1983, 53


Source:
Canmore NX88NE 6; Fellows-Jensen 1983, 53


Source:
Canmore NY27NW 6;9; Fellows-Jensen 1983, 54


Source:
MacQueen 1973, 24; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 354


Source:
MacQueen 1973, 24; Canmore NS71SW 22; Fellows-Jensen 1983, 54


Source:
Watson 1926, 163; MacQueen 1973, 21; Canmore NX33NE 1


Source:
Watson 1926, 164; MacQueen 1973, 20; Canmore NX36NW 31; Kirkcowan 1983, 70


Earlier versions:
Kirkpatrick juxta Moffett, Kilpatrick Juxta

Source:
PNDf 83; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 54; MacQUeen 1973, 24


Source:
PNDf 79; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 54; MacQueen 1973, 24


Source:
Brooke 1983, 70; Watson 1926, 22; MacQueen 1973, 22: Canmore NX 86NE 5


Earlier versions:
Carholand, Carehulland, carehullan, Carehullen, Carhullen


Notes:
field where two rivers meet near an old church at keroodhoo


Meaning:
Specific is an Anglo-French personal name


Meaning:
Specific=french pers name- Breton origin, Alein


Meaning:
Scandinavian pers name Halfdan, though Ekwall says OE name Aldhun


Meaning:
Pers name Astin, an Ascand form of Asketill


Source:
PNWe 2. 55; DEPN: Fellows-Jensen 1985, 26


Parish:
Lower Allithwaite, cAtrmel, Lonsdale H. North

Meaning:
Scandinavian Bretar (Britons), 'probably referring to surviving enclaves of Cumbrian Britons


Source:
PNDf 131; SPN 115; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 26


Meaning:
Personal  N Bueth (popular 12th C, prob OI 'yellow'


Meaning:
Personal name Bochard - french form of Burghard


Meaning:
Pl of ME canounfrom Ofr canun 'canon'. Priory founded 1175


Earlier versions:
Crosbycanon, Crosbycanonby, Crosby or Cross-Canonb


Earlier versions:
Crosseby Ravenesvart, Crossebi, Crosbi(e), -by


Earlier versions:
Crosseby Aylward, Aylwardcrosseby, Aylewardby, Cro


Meaning:
Scand folk name Danir 'Danes' some forms showing substitution of OE Dene

Source:
SPN 112, PNDf 20; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 28


Meaning:
Scandinavian personal name Dolgfinnr (rare Scand, but common Yorkshire)


Meaning:
Gaelic 'black fort' (looks over to Birrens Hill)


Notes:
appears to be a name for a site that had been abandoned by the time the Vikings settled


Meaning:
Gaelic personal name - servant of St John


Meaning:
Gaelic 'gillae' servant - borrowed into Scandinavian


Meaning:
ContGerm personal name Henric, with forms of naimng taking French form


Meaning:
Isaac, bibliocal name, probably an individual who held land in next parish in 1165


Earlier versions:
Ionesbi, Johannebi, Johanbi, Johanneby, Hoenbi,


Earlier versions:
Middeby, middelby, medelby, mydilby, Meddilby…


Meaning:
'lower' ? Relating to Roman camp locations


Notes:
probably the Ricard who held Etterby in 1130


Source:
Barrow 1980, 47; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 39


Earlier versions:
villa de Scales, Schalebery, Schaleby, Scaleby


Meaning:
Scand Skotar, OE Scottas - presumably referring to Scottish gaels


Meaning:
Personal name, either OE sigebald (gen pre 8th C) or ContGerm


Meaning:
Scand appellative sula - 'pillar, post' or 'fork, cleft'


Meaning:
Ofr personal name 'Terri' <Cont Germ Theoderic


Meaning:
OlDan appellative 'thornscrub' or related OE and Scand 'thorn bush'


Earlier versions:
Trnebi, Turnebi, Ti-, Tyrneby, Tyrneby, Thyrnby


Meaning:
ME hukkeman 'pedlar', or Scand personal name


Meaning:
OE personal name (or ContGerm personal name)


Parish:
Ureby Field, Cockermouth, Allerdale Above W


Earlier versions:
Wymmerby, Wylmerby, Wilmo(u)rby, Wermerbye, Wylmorby


Source:
PNDf 1; Fellows-Jensen 1985, 53; MacQueen 1973, 24


Earlier versions:
Blendesbothel, Blendbothel, Blindbothil, Blyndebothill, Blyndbothel, Blyndboll

Notes:
Unsure of location - general location of parish


Earlier versions:
Polleburc, Polleburgh, Polburgh, Powburgh, Powbrough


Earlier versions:
Botelton, Bothinton, Boelton, Boulton, Howelton, Bowlton, Boleton, Bolton

Meaning:
Botl+tun, the village proper, enclosure with buildings


Meaning:
sourland flatt by/belonging to the church


Meaning:
Grawe's keeill vian (St Matthew's church)


Earlier versions:
Ballakilley, Ballnakilley, ball a killey


Meaning:
mountain of the heaps of stones/little cairns


Earlier versions:
Cronk y Dooney, Cronk e Dhooney, Cronk e dooney

Notes:
usually associated with patrick - ny Ballakilpheric


Earlier versions:
Clokon a killey, Claghen ne Killey, Claughan ne killagh


Other element - dedication:
Mx skeerey keeill chreest rushen/G sgire +cill


Meaning:
mountain of the blackberries or whortleberries


Earlier versions:
Corneill ne Killaugh, Corneil ne Killaugh


Meaning:
point/corner of the church, the church corner


# 015_CRAFTS

Detail:
hearth; crucibles; bronze and iron slag; clay moul


