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Note
Date 1988
Event ID 1144848
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Borthwick NT 368 596 NT35NE 3
Fragments of at least three Early Christian cross-shafts are known from Borthwick.
(i) The first (RMS, I B 146), which bears relief carvings of two beasts and a debased key-pattern, was first published in 1889. At one time its provenance was thought to be the churchyard, but it should perhaps be identified as the stone discovered in 1886 immediately NW of the castle, which was noted on the second edition of the OS 6-inch map (NT 3697 5974).
(ii) The other two fragments, which are now built into the wall of Crookston House (NT 4254 5163)[NT45SW 22], are thought to come from Borthwick Church (NT35NE 12) both are sculptured in relief with interlace and borders of cable moulding.
Also at Crookston House are a 15th century font and a heraldic panel, reputedly from Borthwick Parish Church.
RCAHMS 1988
(Anderson 1889, 351; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 421-3; OS 6-inch map, Edinburgh, 2nd ed. 1908, sheet 14; RCAHMS 1929, 9, no. 6; Curle 1940, 111)
