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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 709443
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/709443
NS99NW 9 92395 97583
(NS 9239 9758) Close behind Tillicoultry House (NS99NW 92.00) is the old churchyard, next to which there stood in former times, the church and manse.
W Gibson 1883.
In the small graveyard behind Tillicoultry House there are a few interesting tombstones dating from as early as 1522. Among them is a fine hog-backed monument, probably of about 12th century date. It is ornamented on its sloping sides. A recumbent slab of the coped type has been considerably re-chiselled, and bears the initials H D and I P - probably not original - inscribed on the top. On one of the sloping sides is cut a broad-bladed sword.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 1927.
This small burial ground is covered with dense vegetation. Of the two monuments described above, the hog-backed stone is too much weathered to identify any ornament clearly. The coped stone now lies in a metal container. Both are 2.0m in length.
Visited by OS (J D) 12 June 1953.
