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Communion Token. Dull, Perthshire. Mr A M D K 1793


Lead, uniface, octagonal 23mm.  Mr A · M  K † D 1793   Burzinski 5029;  Cresswell 4422.  
Minister Archibald Menzies, 1789-1839. Kirk of Dull, Perthshire.

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Dull is a village in Perth and Kinross in the Scottish Highlands.  It consists of a single street of houses on the north side of the Tay valley. Its name may derive from the same origin as the Welsh dol meaning “water-meadow”. It consists of a single street of houses on the north side of the valley of the River Tay.

The parish church is on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St Adomnán. Several early Christian cross-slabs dating to the 7th or 8th century have been discovered in and around the parish graveyard. A slab carved with stylised warriors and horsemen in the Pictish style, uncovered during grave-digging in the 19th century, is displayed in the Museum of Scotland and may have formed part of a wall-relief, or one side of a box-shrine. A massive font of rough workmanship, preserved by the church door, is also a probable relic from the early monastic site.

The surrounding district was known as the Appin of Dull, the name deriving from Old Irish apdaine ("abbacy") referring to the former monastic estate, as with Appin in Argyll, the abbey lands, in that case, being those of the major early Christian monastery of Lismore. Four undecorated crosses, of which three survive, one at Dull itself, and two in the nearby old church at Weem, once stood around the monastic precinct, defining an area of sanctuary.

From the later Middle Ages to modern times, the church at Dull was a parish church in the Diocese of Dunkeld. It is not known when the early Christian monastery ceased to function.  It declined for much of the 20th century, its church and school both going out of use, though the small village has seen the construction of several new houses, and the restoration of older buildings, in the 21st century.  In 1951, its population of 2,055 but this was for an extensive parish stretching a long way beyond the village itself. As of 2012, the population of Dull was approximately 84.

Dull is twinned may be small but its inhabitants certainly have a sense of humour for it is twinned with Boring, Oregon, since 2012, and Bland, Bland Shire, NSW, Australia, a farm community and former gold prospecting site creating not a "twinned town" but a League of Extraordinary Communities to group Dull, Boring and Bland. The group became known as the "Trinity of Tedium".



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