Fig. 700.—Deer Church. Recess of Monument.
Deer is the site of a very early monastery, founded by St. Columba, of which the venerable Book of Deer is the only remaining memorial. It was written in the ninth century, and contains the Gospel of St. John, with portions of the other gospels, and notes on the margins relating to the monastery written in Gaelic at a later period. The existing church has no connection with this ancient monastery further than that it probably occupies the same position. It was, doubtless, erected about the fifteenth century.
AUCHINDOIR CHURCH, Aberdeenshire.
Fig. 701.—Auchindoir Church. Plan.
