Stobo Description of stone

Event ID 1084803

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Stobo, Peeblesshire, tegulated coped monument fragment

Measurements: L 0.27m, W 0.18m, H 0.23m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NT 18271 37654

Present location: in Stobo Church.

Evidence for discovery: first recorded by RCAHMS in 1962.

Present condition: trimmed for re-use.

Description

This was a steep-sided coped monument. The fragment shows three rows of trapezoid tegulae.

Date range: twelfth century.

Primary references: Lang 1974, 232.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019