Govan Description of stone
Event ID 1019925
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019925
Govan 28 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, recumbent gravestone
Measurements: H 1.65m, W 0.57m, D 0.29m
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 churchyard in the nineteenth century, re-used as a gravestone.
Present condition: worn, with edge damage, and the head end defaced for the later inscription.
Description
Within a wide plain border, this stone bore a plain cross with small circular armpits, the arms extending to meet the border. The background is filled with very heavy interlace. The initials T A . E A are incised above the date 1723.
Date: tenth or eleventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 469-70, no 28; Cramp 1994, 29c.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
