MHG2859 - Font, Little Dalcross

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FONT (Undated)

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The Bishop's Stone is a rounded block of reddish-grey granite with a round basin carved in it and recently defaced by a chiselled groove across the face. It is 4ft long by 3ft 8ins broad by 1ft 8ins thick and the basin is 6" across and 2 1/2 ins deep with vertical sides. Traditionall this was used by the Bishop at stated periods for baptism in pre-reformation times.
The stone is on an elevated ridge in a wood on the farm of Balnabual near Dalcross Castle and 7 yards south of an old unused road from Croy to Dalcross.
W Jolly 1882.

There is no local knowledge either at Balnabual or Dalcross Castle of a stone with the above dimensions. (See NH74NE 21)
Visited by OS (N K B) 17 December 1964.

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--- SHG1317 Text/Publication/Article: Jolly, W. 1882. On cup-marked stones in the neighbourhood of Inverness; with an appendix on cup-marked stones in the Western Islands. Proc Soc Antiq Scot Volume 16. 300-401. 379-80; fig. 83.

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Grid reference	Centred NH 7700 4800 (4m by 4m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH74NE
Civil Parish	CROY AND DALCROSS
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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FONT (Undated)

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https://canmore.org.uk/site/14145 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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