Kilchousland Old Parish Church, Campbell stone. General view of headstone. Digital image of AG/1490

Description Kilchousland Old Parish Church, Campbell stone. General view of headstone. Digital image of AG/1490

Date 7/1965

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 801610

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1490

Scope and Content Gravestone of Ionet '...', Old Parish Church and Burial-Ground, Kilchousland, Argyll & Bute This gravestone features a central inscribed panel, supported by two deer holding small trees. At the top of the panel is a bell and a 'rounding knife', or possibly a horseshoe. Below the deer are an hourglass, (symbol of the brevity of life), a skull and bone (emblems of death) and a winged soul (symbol of the spirit ascending to Heaven after death). At the bottom of the stone is a four-horse ploughing team with a driver. The panel in the centre of the stone is inscribed: 'No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God' (Luke, 9:62). This is one of several ploughing scenes on farmers' gravestones in this burial-ground. This gravestone commemorates Ionet [...], spouse to William Campbell, who died in 1722. It stands in the burial-ground of Kilchousland Church, originally dedicated to St Columba, and now in ruins. It was built in the 12th century and extended eastwards during the 16th century. Part of a medieval stone cross was found in the burial-ground (now in Campbeltown Museum), and several fine post-Reformation gravestones also survive. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Inv. plate 34b

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/801610

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