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Description of stone
Event ID 1010058
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010058
Liddesdale, The Liddesdale Stone, Roxburghshire, Latin inscribed stone
Measurements: H 1.73m, W 0.53m, D 0.28m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NY 4968 8901
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh.
Evidence for discovery: found in August 1933 in the Liddel Water ‘a few yards below’ its junction with the Ralton Burn, on the west side of the Water. It is thought to have come from a field wall which was washed away by heavy flooding some years previously.
Present condition: good.
Description
This tapering stone was presumably once upright not far from where it was found. It is incised with a three-line Latin inscription running up the stone towards the taper, which reads: HIC IACIT CARANTI FIL[I] CUPITIANI, ‘here lies Carantus son of Cupitianus’.
Date: sixth or seventh century.
References: Macdonald 1936, 33-5.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
