Description of stone
Event ID 1010970
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010970
Yarrow Stone, Selkirkshire, inscribed stone
Measurements: H 1.53m above ground level, W 0.80m, D 0.36m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: NT 3480 2744
Present location: set upright within wooden railings close to where it was found in a field near Yarrow Church.
Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing at the beginning of the 19th century and before 1805, with human bones beneath it. The stone was taken to Bowhill and later returned to where it had been found, where it was set upright sometime in the first half of the 19th century.
Present condition: some flaking and edge damage from the chains used to move it.
Description
One broad face of the stone bears a pecked six-line inscription set vertically in such a way that it reads from top to bottom of the stone. In Latin, it reads: ‘This is the everlasting memorial. In this place lie the most famous princes Nudus and Dumnogenus. In this tomb lie the two sons of Liberalis’.
Date: early sixth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 432; RCAHMS 1967, no 174.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
