Govan Description of stone

Event ID 1019964

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Govan 40 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, recumbent gravestone

Measurements: H 1.60m, W 0.46m, D 0.15m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: NS c 5537 6588

Present location: in the churchyard.

Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard in the nineteenth century and reburied. Rediscovered during excavations in 2019.

Present condition: worn.

Description

This long rectangular slab has a plain border and a plain outline cross.

Date: tenth or eleventh century.

References: Stirling Maxwell 1899, no 30; Cramp 1994, fig 66b.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017 & 2019.