Stone carving
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Note about 'Creag an Fhithich' and vocabulary note, 18 September 1909
Note about 'Creag an Fhithich' describing a rock with writing on the north end which has not been deciphered. It also describes two deep caves, one of which is inaccessible and the other 'had been liven in - full of shells'. The vocabulary note reads 'Scrot = Shelf in rock'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about statutes of Calum Cille and St Moluag, 29 August 1883
Note probably collected from Donald MacColl [foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that there were [wooden] holy statues or images of Curalan [St Cyril], Calum Cille [St Columba] and St Moluag kept in the church on Cuirralan [Beinn Churalain], Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which were destroyed by 'sgampeoran' [scamps] who came to a bad end as a result and that there was a castle on top of Beinn Chuirailain [Beinn Churalain].
Note entitled 'Font', March 1866
Note entitled 'Font' describing the carvings on a baptismal font, one side showing Christ and the cross, another the Virigin and child, another a bishop 'in full pontificals and crozier' and on the last side a knight in full armour. Also on the font there are 'beautiful celtic basketwork', plants and inscriptions which are no longer legible. The font is St Michael's font in the Chapel of St Maelrube [Maol Rubha], Lochaoineart, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye.
Note on stone inscription, 15 August 1883
Note collected from Donald MacGregor, Baile Garbh/Bailegarve, Lios Mòr/Lismore that there was 'a stone dated 1340 in raised figures' [on top of the] church.
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol-ruibhe], Naomh Brian[ain] and associated archaeological sites, 1867
Stone Carving at Mitla [Mexico], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of stone carvings on the walls of the archaeological site, Mitla, in Oaxaca, Mexico in the late 19th or early 20th century.