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Lempitlaw Description of stone
Event ID 1085174
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085174
Lempitlaw, Roxburghshire, tegulated coped gravestone
Measurements: L 1.78m, W 0.42m tapering to 0.35m, H 0.26m tapering to 0.23m
Stone type: red sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 78835 32788
Present location: lying at the east end of the old graveyard of Lempitlaw.
Evidence for discovery: first noted, half buried, in 1932 by RCAHMS. It was excavated by James Lang and Graham Ritchie in 1969, when ploughmarks were noted along one side, which suggested that the stone may have been brought from elsewhere. A low wooden kerb surrounds the stone, with a gravel filling.
Present condition: damaged and worn.
Description
Beneath the damaged ridge on the north side of the monument are three rows of rectangular tegulae carved in relief, above a plain vertical side. The south side is very weathered and no trace of carving survives, but the ‘ploughmarks’ look more like natural striations in the sandstone.
Date range: early twelfth century.
Primary references: RCAHMS 1956, no 971; Lang 1974, 228.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
