Discover the ancient traces of Christianity in Britain through these remarkable stones that were sculpted 1,500 years ago.
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The Kirkmadrine Stones are a collection of eight carved stones that date from the 500s to the 1100s AD.
They are some of the oldest Christian memorials in Scotland and provide evidence of the early presence and growth of the Scottish church. The stones are displayed in a glass-fronted porch of the Kirkmadrine Kirk, a church built in the late 1800s on the site of an ancient holy spring.
The stones are believed to have been carved by Irish monks who lived and worshipped in this area. Their inscriptions in Latin and Ogham, an ancient Celtic script, that commemorate various religious figures and events.
They are of great historical and archaeological significance and play a pivotal role in our understanding of northern Britain after occupation by Imperial Rome in the early first century AD .