Qualla: Hilton of Cadboll Chapel https://qualla.com/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/0/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hilton of Cadboll Chapel https://qualla.com/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel Hilton of Cadboll Chapel: Introduction https://qualla.com/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel/ Photo credit Johnbod, CC BY-SA 3.0. The stone is gone now - moved away in the 1860s, broken, eventually carried to Edinburgh, where it stands in the National Museum of Scotland. What remains at Hilton of Cadboll is the foundation of the chapel that once held it, low turf-covered banks running across the grass, and a replica of the stone standing where the original used to be, visible from the chapel ruin like a memory in the wrong place. The site looks east over the Moray Firth from a low rise five meters above sea level, and Pictish people were burying their dead here twelve hundred years before the medieval chapel was built.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/0/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-wp/gfm0-hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hilton of Cadboll Chapel: A Layered Holy Place https://qualla.com/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel/ Photo credit Johnbod, CC BY-SA 3.0. Archaeology at Hilton of Cadboll has revealed at least four distinct phases of activity stacked on the same patch of ground. Pictish burials beneath the site date from 650 to 900 CE - human bone fragments from these centuries have been recovered during limited excavation. Around ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/0/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-wp/gfm0-hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-a-layered-holy-place.mp3 0:06 2 full Hilton of Cadboll Chapel: The Enclosures https://qualla.com/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel/ Photo credit Johnbod, CC BY-SA 3.0. The chapel sits inside two concentric enclosures of low turf-covered banks. The inner enclosure - 32 by 23 meters, oriented east-northeast to west-southwest - is the older. Its construction began somewhere between the 7th and 9th centuries and continued through to the mid-twelfth...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/0/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-wp/gfm0-hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-the-enclosures.mp3 0:06 3 full Hilton of Cadboll Chapel: Children Buried in Order https://qualla.com/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel/ Photo credit Johnbod, CC BY-SA 3.0. Excavation west of the chapel uncovered the burials of four children and youths. Two were buried contemporary with the chapel's medieval construction; the other two came later, sometime in the medieval or early post-medieval period. The pattern hints at spatial zoning - specific ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/0/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-wp/gfm0-hilton-of-cadboll-chapel-children-buried-in-order.mp3 0:06 4 full Hilton of Cadboll Chapel: Where the Stone Stood https://qualla.com/hilton-of-cadboll-chapel/ Photo credit Johnbod, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Hilton of Cadboll Stone was a Pictish cross slab of exceptional quality - one of the finest survivors of the entire tradition. Carved around 800 CE, it likely stood in a small semicircular setting on the western gable of the chapel from the time of its making through to about...

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