Archaeology Notes

Event ID 717557

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT58SW 3.04 545 849.

Stones at Manse, North Berwick. The following fragments of architectural and antiquarian interest are built into a rockery in front the manse. They are understood to have been removed from the Nunnery ruins (see NT58SW 3).

(a) A 13th century base from a wall arcade 7 1/2 inches high by 12 inches broad across the lowest member. The shaft has had a diameter of 5 inches.

(b) A 13th century foliaceous capital 1 feet 1 inch in height by 1 foot 3 inches in breadth.

(c) The lower portion of a recumbent grave-slab 6 inches thick with a mean breadth of 1 foot 6 inches. A splay returns along the upper edge bordering a much worn inscription in Gothic lettering which is now illegible. In the panel is carved in relief a cross shaft terminating in a single step.

(d) The upper portion of a recumbent grave-slab 6 inches thick and 2 feet broad. A splay returns along the edge. In the panel there is a helmested head reclining on a cushion tasselled at the corners, beneath an elaborate canopy. An inscription in Gothic lettering has returned round the panel, but is now too decayed to be read without conjecture. (e) On a lintel 3 feet long and 8 inches broad is incised in Roman lettering the text 'Pasce Oves Meas". (Feed My Sheep)."

RCAHMS 1924

Items (a) and (b) are now in the Burgh Museum, North Berwick, while (c) (d) and (e) are located in the enclosure at St Andrews, pre-Reformation Church (NJ58NE 3).

Visited by OS (JLD) 11 September 1962