BGCP_01  Claymore Stone

Site co-ordinates: 40.50/16.80 

Stuart LXVII, 5 ; Fisher 1996 Grave F 

Photogrammetry here

The slab, aligned W–E,  lies 7 m S of the SE corner of the Old Kirk. It is 1.63 m long, by 0.36–0.42 m wide, wider at its W end. It is slightly convex on its south side and concave on its north, with three rounded corners, and one (SE) more angular. There has been some flaking of its surface at its eastern end. 

There are traces of a narrow, incised line 50–100 mm in from the edge of the slab, creating a border around most of the slab. This appears to have been worn away around the rest of the slab.  

Within the border is a 1 m long carved outline of a claymore sword, with its hilt and tear-shaped pommel at the west, with downward angled quillons, that on the south side rounded, and that on the north widening to a more squared end. Its blade is 0.73 m long, narrowing from 0.1 m wide at the top to 0.6 m at its distinctly squared end – unlike how is was depicted in Stuart’s 1867 illustration.  No inscription or date is visible anywhere on the slab, though there are some very faint and indistinct possible markings between the blade and the border on the south side. 

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