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Field Visit
Date 9 December 1927
Event ID 1115545
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1115545
Hog-backed Tombstone, Kirknewton Churchyard.
This fine monument lies in the churchyard at the site of the old parish church of Kirknewton. The monument is believed to occupy its original position, but the crossstones at the ends of the hog-back have obviously been set up at a later date. The monument measures 5 feet 7 ½ inches in length, 18 ¼ inches wide at the base of the west end and 14 ½ inches wide at the base of the east end. It is very slightly arched, with an average height of about 13 inches, in the line of its length. The ridge is not in the centre of the sloping sides, but both sides are ornamented with three rows of scales, the broadest or south side having also a bar of pearl ornament along the top of the upright base. The gabled west end has two rows of scale ornament, but the east end is somewhat broken.
Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxxviii (1903-4), p.425.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 9 December 1927.
