Abercorn Description of stone
Event ID 1011301
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011301
Abercorn 5, West Lothian, hogback grave cover
Measurements: H c 0.30m, L c 1.40m, W 0.37m to 0.40m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 0814 7907
Present location: in museum at Abercorn Church.
Evidence for discovery: found on the south side of the church during the alterations to the church c 1893.
Present condition: broken into two with truncated ends, but the tegulation is crisp.
Description
The ridge is slightly curved and plain and the sides have a shallow slope. The ends are truncated but had flat plain bands. Each side is carved with five rows of neat tegulae with vertical sides, but on one side the middle three rows are smaller than the rest.
Date: early twelfth century.
References: Lang 1974, 218, 222 (Abercorn 2).
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
