What is recorded here
Disert Enclosure is a 34-metre oval churchyard where a drystone wall still divides the living space from the western graveyard. Inside that marked section stand an altar and three penitential cairns, testaments to prayers repeated until flesh and stone wore thin. The low sod-covered boundary has faded into a slight scarp, yet the shape remains clear enough to show where devotion once drew its line.
Located within the S half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (DG084-001001-). This roughly oval or oblong area (34m NE−SW; c. 27m NW−SE) is defined by low sod-covered walls footings, in parts reduced to a slight scarp. A drystone wall on NE−SW axis subdivides the interior to W of centre. This wall marks off the W third of the enclosure, which serves as a graveyard (DG084-001002-), in which an altar (DG084-001008-) and three penitential cairns (DG084-001005-; DG084-001006-; DG084-001007-) are located.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 August 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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