Field Visit
Date 22 March 1933 - 13 October 1933
Event ID 1106655
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1106655
Parish Church, Hog-backed Stone, etc.
The former parish church of Ancrum is now reduced to its foundations. Beneath the turf of the church-yard, about 20yds S of the ruin, there lies a hog- backed stone about 6ft 4in in length, ornamented on both sides with five rows of shingle ornament. It was recorded in 1922, when more of the stone appears to have been above the surface, that its breadth was 1ft 10in at the head and 1ft 2in at the foot, and its height 1ft at either end and 1ft 1 1/2in in the middle (Craw 1922, 188).
The churchyard contains only one stone of earlier date than 1707. This, a small headstone, has a shaped top, has a shaped top and displays in front a crudely carved skull and cross-bones, while the back bears the inscription HERE LYES / ADAM RICHARDSON / WHO LIVED IN ANE ONEST REPUT ALL / HIS DAYES AND DIED / IN OCTOBER THE 19 / 1701 AND OF HIS / AGE 55.
Bell.
The bell of the modern parish church [NT62SW 195], now inaccessible, is understood to bear the inscription MICHAEL BVRGERHBVYS ME FECIT 1618.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 22 March and 13 October 1933.
