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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 731489
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/731489
NY48NE 13 4810 8900.
(NY 4910 8900) The Liddesdale Stone (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
An Early Christian gravestone, now in the NMAS, was found in August 1933 in the bed of the Liddel Water just below the inflow of the Ralton Burn. It had apparently been built into a drystone dyke standing on the river bank which had collapsed into the water after recent flooding. It is a block of sandstone with maximum dimensions of 5 ft 8 ins, 1 ft 9 ins and 11 ins, bearing an inscription reading "HIC IACIT / CARANTI FIL(I) / CVPITIANI". It is dated by the RCAHMS to the 5th or early 6th century, while Thomas suggests a 6th or 7th century date.
RCAHMS 1956; G Macdonald 1936; A C Thomas 1971
No further information.
Visited by OS (TRG) 2 July 1979
