Govan Description of stone
Event ID 1019907
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019907
Govan 10 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, hogback gravestone
Measurements: L 2.42m, W 0.50m, H 0.70m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS c 5537 6588
Present location: in the transept of Govan Old Parish Church.
Evidence for discovery: visible in the churchyard at least as early as the start of the nineteenth century and moved into a building in the churchyard in 1858. It was moved into the church in 1926 and into the north aisle in 1965.
Present condition: the upper part of the stone is very worn and a secondary double hole has been bored into on long side.
Description
The long sides are carved with five rows of large tegulae with concave sides within plain borders. The ends are truncated, and only one end-beast survives and is very weathered.
Date: late tenth century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 463, no 10; Lang 1994, no 2; Davidson Kelly 1994, 10-11; Ritchie 2004, no 2.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
