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CONVINTH, OLD PARISH CHURCH, BURIAL GROUND

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Canmore ID 101145 SCRAP ID 2623
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 51205 37440 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
CEMETERY PERIOD UNASSIGNED
Date Fieldwork Started 12/12/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name CONVINTH, OLD PARISH CHURCH, BURIAL GROUND Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NH 51205 37440
New OS NGR
Lat/Long 57.40293 -4.4781
Obtained By:

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • Not located in the field
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather
Position in landscape
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.)
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.)

B2. Current land use & vegetation

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B3. Forestry

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B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel

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B5. Location Notes

We visited and searched the area. The graveyard is still in use and maintained. No cup marked stones were found in or around the graveyard.

Previous Notes

NH53NW 2.01 centred 51205 37440 Location formerly entered as Centred 5123 3748. This was once the parish church of Convinth (W Jolly 1882) 2), and was dedicated to St. Lawrence. Convinth was a parish in 1221. The churchyard contains some early stones, including one bearing a horse and rider, suggestive of the Celtic period (NH53NW 2.02). There are also two cup-marked stones, one with two cups, the other with four. Glen-convinth church is traditionally said to have been founded by a companion of St Erchard.(W MacKay 1893) (St. Erchard was a disciple of St. Ternan. St. Ternan lived in the 5th century). (W D Simpson 1935) Information from OS. T Wallace 1911

St Lawrence's Church - possibly of 16/17th century date, with no trace of earlier structure - is built of random masonry, roughly coursed with rubble infilling and measures approx 22.0m by 6.8m within a wall 1.0m thick. The SW gable and the NW wall stand to a maximum height of c.2.5 m, and part of the SE wall survives as a foundation, but the NE gable is destroyed. Graves occupy the interior. The burial ground is still in use. The stone bearing the horse and rider, and the two cup-marked stones, could not be located and there is no local knowledge of them. Visited by OS (R D) 9 Feburary 1970

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) Width
Height (max) Height (min)
Approximate slope of carved surface
degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface Carved Surface Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness No selection Grain Size No selection Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type No selection

C4. Surface Features

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C5. Panel Notes

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C6. Probability

The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is not mentioned

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

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D2. Awareness

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There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
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Animal
Human
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Comments and other potential threats

No comments added