Staff are off to visit the Kirkmadrine stones this evening, now that these magnificent Christian monuments have been redisplayed. Some of you may have seen the Herald article on Sunday 24th May relating to the importance of these stones at Whithorn’s sister site. If you were puzzled that Kirkmadrine is mentioned as the earliest monastery and wonder why not Whithorn, it’s because researchers at Glasgow University and Adrian Maldonado at Chester University have been rethinking the relationship between the two and now believe that Whithorn, with its 5th Century Latinus stone, was not in origin a monastery, but may be …read more

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