| Cowie Chapel George Ironside tomb |
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Upright grave slab with Celtic cross with interlocking knotwork in high relief with a carving of a chalice in the centre of the cross. It is inscribed in Latin: Georgius Ironside ecci: Scot: Sacerdos - In Xto. Obdormivit iiij Non. Oct MDCCCLXI Det Illi Dominus (the rest is obscured) |
| Loanhead of Daviot Recumbent-stone circle |
Recumbent stone circle containing a ring cairn with adjacent cremation cemetery. One of the stones, next to the flanker to the east of the recumbent, bears 12 cup marks. The stone circle precedes, in time, the cairn which covers cremations and the scattering of bone, flint and pottery. Excavation of the cairn showed use from the second to the first half of the first millennium B. C. . The adjacent Bronze Age cremation cemetry dates from circa 3500 years ago. At least 31 cremations and burials occured around a central pit, 8 of them children between 3 and 6. 11 deposits in urns have been found and 9 in pits some deposits containing several individuals. This place was used as a sacred site over an extended period of several thousands of years. |
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