This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 56.9948 / 56°59'41"N
Longitude: -6.2475 / 6°14'51"W
OS Eastings: 142123
OS Northings: 797312
OS Grid: NM421973
Mapcode National: GBR BBY7.C52
Mapcode Global: WGY91.0G83
Entry Name: Bagh na h-Uamha,cross 150m NE of waterfall in An Uamh,Rum
Scheduled Date: 5 March 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6329
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Crosses and carved stones: cross (free-standing)
Location: Small Isles
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Caol and Mallaig
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument consists of a cross-marked rock positioned on a beach just above the high water mark.
The cross slab is about 1.5m in height. It was discovered in 1977 on the beach. It bears a cross at its tapered head. Although worn it is likely that the cross was originally an equal-armed cross with the vertical arm extending downwards to form a Latin cross. The cross shaft has been moved back up the beach and erected just above the high tide mark.
The area to be scheduled measures 25m in diameter, to include the cross and an area around it as shown in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance for its potential contribution to an understanding of Early Christian belief and sculpture in this area of Scotland.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NM 49 NW 2.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments