Old Travel Blog Photograph Camus Cross Panmure Carnoustie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Camus Cross, located on the Panmure Estate near Carnoustie, Scotland. The Camus Cross, otherwise known as the Camuston or Camustane Cross, is an Early Medieval Scottish standing stone. First recorded in the 15th century in a legal document describing the boundaries between Camuston and the barony of Downie, and described in the 17th century by Robert Maule, it is a freestanding cross, rare in Eastern Scotland. The cross is thought to date from the tenth century, and exhibits distinctive Hiberno Scottish mission influences, in common with several other monuments in the area. Tradition and folk etymology suggest that the cross marked the burial site of Camus, leader of the Norse army purportedly defeated by King Malcolm II at the apocryphal Battle of Barry. The name of the stone is likely to derive from the extinct village of Camuston, which has a Celtic toponymy.



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