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St Helen's Description of stone
Event ID 1008361
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008361
St Helen’s Church 2, Old Cambus, Berwickshire, hogback gravestone
Measurements: L 1.50m, H 0.28m, W 0.32m-0.37m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 80377067
Present location:
Evidence for discovery: seen in churchyard in 1908. Recorded by Lang in early 1970s in churchyard near east gable of church. Not seen in 2015 but site deep in vegetation.
Present condition: very worn and the west end is damaged.
Description:
This hogback belongs to Lang’s Illustrative type. It has a flat ridge and a basal vertical plinth. Side A is divided into three panels, each carved in relief with a quadruped, two separated by a stylised tree. Side B is carved with three rows of tegulae.
Date: eleventh century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
