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Edrom Description of stone

Event ID 1008151

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008151

Edrom, Berwickshire, hogback gravestone fragment

Measurements: L 0.93m, H 0.15m-0.25m, W 0.20m-0.34m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NT 828 558

Present location: lost.

Evidence for discovery: recorded by Richardson in 1906 or 1907 in the hearse-house, but lost by the early 1970s when Lang visited the site.

Present condition:

Description:

Beneath a plain moulding are carved three rows of tegulae on one side and four rows on the other.

Date: early eleventh century.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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