Perhaps the most interesting part of my visit to Saddell Abbey was the graveyard around the remains. I love an old cemetery. Although it has been in occasional use recently, most of it is falling into gentle - and rather beautiful - decay.

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The remains of the abbey may be few, but there are the Saddell Stones to see. There are several hundred of these stones surviving; twelve at Saddell. The men in armour are from Iona, but the others are thought to have been made at Saddell.

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Also at Saddell are the remains of an abbey. Saddell Abbey was founded around 1148, and although small, survived into the C16. Few documents survive to flesh out its history, and there are few visible remains.

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Grip by Antony Gormley on the beach at Saddell. It’s one of five of his works commissioned to celebrate fifty years of the Landmark Trust, one of whose properties is right by the beach (third picture). (Tide and light prevented a better picture!)

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