Govan Description of stone

Event ID 1019922

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Govan 24 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, recumbent gravestone

Measurements: H 1.55m, W 0.76m, D 0.13m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NS c 5537 6588

Present location: lost.

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

Present condition:

Description

Allen describes this slab as belonging to the angle-knob group, but entirely defaced except for an angel at one end.

Date: tenth or eleventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 466, no 24; Cramp 1994.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017