Bedrule Description of stone
Event ID 1085141
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085141
Bedrule 1, Roxburghshire, hogback gravestone fragment
Measurements: L 0.39m, W 0.19m, H 0.17m to 0.13m
Stone type: pale sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 59922 17925
Present location:in the vestibule at the base of the west tower at Bedrule Church.
Evidence for discovery: found during the restoration of the church in 1915.
Present condition: broken but the carving is in good condition.
Description
This fragment has secondary dressing at either end, presumably for re-use. It comes from a finely carved monument, the ridge of which is damaged, but which has three rows of deeply cut trapezoid tegulae.
Date range: late eleventh century.
Primary references: Lang 1974, 223; Binnie 2001, 20.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
