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Visited 3.6.12 Well I did visit but the church door was locked and I couldn’t get the key as it was a Sunday. I tried looking through the windows but couldn’t see the stone. The church is right on the shoreline. I did have a look around the lovely old grave yard and admired the weather beaten old tombstones covered in the now familiar ‘hairy’ lichen. I do like an old church / graveyard with character. |
Posted by CARL 6th July 2012ce |
| This can be found in a church alongside the road to Burwick pier where the short sea ferry crossings take place in the tourist season). It is now in a back room at the church, and the key can be had from the lady who runs the local P.O. As this is on the 1:25,000 but unsignposted it is probably best to enquire at the Tomb of the Eagles in order to avoid disappointment outside of its limited post office hours. |
Posted by wideford9th April 2007ce |
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| Stone Hone, ND25NW 13 at ND24265736, by tradition is the grave of an Earl Liot(us) of Caithness and Orkney [Ljot Thorfinnsson]. |
Posted by wideford 25th May 2012ce Edited 25th May 2012ce |
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Saint Magnus appears to come into the story sometime between the 16th century and 1690. Down in Caithness a story was told of the saint turning a dragon into the Stone Hone in the Watten parish, now reduced to rubble. The first mention is that a man was shipwrecked and got home by jumping on the back of a monster, which he then turned into the stone, this "Gallus" promising to dedicate a church to St. Mary. Although the writer wrote of the stone being by a 'temple' near the shore I presume this simply means the kirk. Between this time and 1701 it seems to have been reduced from 6'x4' to the present dimensions - perhaps this was to remove some pagan feature. By Gallus we might be dealing with another word for a RC priest - perhaps Magnus' name was attached to protect the stone at a time of religious upheaval. Of course as this saint was an earl of virtually kinglet status it could have been attached even earlier. |
Posted by wideford 3rd September 2004ce Edited 25th May 2012ce |
| The alternative name comes about because St.Magnus was held to have used it as a boat . |
Posted by wideford 27th February 2004ce |
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| Previous chapel is grassy mound between on banks of Burwick loch, between this and and shoreside road. X for St.Colm's Chapel shown on 1882 map at ND44168427. Originally occupied an islet in the now-drained loch so probably on a crannog/broch/island dun site. |
Posted by wideford 24th April 2006ce Edited 24th April 2006ce |
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In the kirkyard of St.Mary's Church near the Burwick pier there is a water-worked whinstone with two hollows resembling feet . It has been suggested in the last few years that it is the inaugural stone of a sub-king with land in both South Ronaldsay and Caithness. |
Posted by wideford 27th February 2004ce Edited 10th September 2004ce |
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