The Hirsel Description of stone

Event ID 1008365

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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