Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702179

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS52NE 2 5784 2740

(NS 5784 2740) George Wood shot AD 1688 (NAT)

OS 6" map (1958).

For Sorn (Parish) Church (NS 55021 26754), see NS52NE 36.00.

This is traditionally said to be the spot where George Wood, a sixteen year old Covenanter, was shot by a trooper.

A stone bearing an inscription to his memory is placed on the outside wall of Sorn Church (NS 5501 2675); a later stone, erected in 1828, is also placed nearby. The inscription on the original stone reads: "Here lyes Georg Wood, who was shot at Tinkhornhill by Bloody John Reid trvper (sic) for his adherence to the Word of God and the Covenanted vork of Reformation 1688."

OS Name Book 1857; M J Steven 1898; J H Thomson 1903.

The two stones mentioned above are situated in the W wall of Sorn Church; they are placed one above the other and are both becoming illegible.

Visited by OS (JFC), 11 June 1954

The two memorial stones, one above the other, are incorporated in the east wall of Sorn Church at NS 5503 2675. They are protected by a metal fence.

Visited by OS (BS), 7 July 1978.