Govan Description of stone

Event ID 1019913

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Govan 16 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, recumbent gravestone

Measurements: H 1.79m, W 0.56m, D 0.20m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NS c 5537 6588

Present location: in the nave of Govan Old Parish Church.

Evidence for discovery: found in the graveyard in the nineteenth century.

Present condition: extremely heavily worn.

Description

This is a rectangular slab, so worn that there is only a patch of interlace to be discerned close to one long edge.

Date: tenth or eleventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 468, no 16; Cramp 1994, fig 34b.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017