Dalserf Description of stone
Event ID 1084818
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084818
Dalserf, Lanarkshire, hogback gravestone
Measurements: L 1.89m, W 0.42m, H 0.27m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NS 79984 50706
Present location: lying outside the south wall of Dalserf Parish Church within a modern kerb.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1922 in its present position, where it has probably been re-used for a later burial.
Present condition: very weathered and broken into two pieces near one end.
Description
A finely carved monument, this stone has steeply pitched sides with four rows of straight-sided tegulae above a plain base panel. The ends are slightly hipped, with traces of at least three rows of tegulae.
Date range: eleventh century.
Primary references: Waddell 1922; Lang 1974, 224.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
