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Conservation
Date August 2018
Event ID 1088887
Category Building History
Type Conservation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088887
NT 6215 2485 The society is undertaking, August 2018 –
ongoing, a project to preserve the ‘hogback’ stone in the
village kirkyard. As CANMORE states ‘Present condition:
very poor: extremely friable sandstone, serious longitudinal
fractures and flaking.’ Though commonly referred to as a
‘hogback’ it is more properly described as a 12th-century
coped grave cover with tegulations. Under the supervision
of archaeologist John Dent, the stone has been lifted and the
area subjected to a small excavation. There was no grave
under the stone, but it was resting on two pieces of masonry,
which appear to have come from the ruined church. It is
possible that the graveslab was originally in the chancel
of the old kirk and was removed when family vaults were
created in the 19th century. It was rediscovered in the 1920s
in its present position (before lifting operations).
Archive: To be determined
Geoff Parkhouse – Ancrum and District Heritage Society
(Source: DES, volume 19)
