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The Hirsel Description of stone
Event ID 1008365
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008365
The Hirsel 3, Berwickshire, recumbent grave-marker
Measurements: L 1.83m, W 0.36m > 0.30m, D 0.14m
Stone type: fine pinkish-grey sandstone.
Place of discovery: NT 830 406
Present location: The Hirsel Information Centre.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing in 1977 on the site of a chapel and graveyard.
Present condition: broken in two.
Description
The upper surface of this slab is smoothly dressed with chamfered edges, and there are traces of lightly incised large circles.
Date: eleventh century?
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
