Dalserf Village, Kirk Road, Dalserf Parish Church And Churchyard
Hogback Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Dalserf Village, Kirk Road, Dalserf Parish Church And Churchyard
Classification Hogback Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Church Of Scotland; Hogback Stone
Canmore ID 319910
Site Number NS75SE 13.01
NGR NS 79979 50713
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319910
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Dalserf
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Hamilton
- Former County Lanarkshire
Dalserf, Lanarkshire, hogback gravestone
Measurements: L 1.89m, W 0.42m, H 0.27m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NS 79984 50706
Present location: lying outside the south wall of Dalserf Parish Church within a modern kerb.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1922 in its present position, where it has probably been re-used for a later burial.
Present condition: very weathered and broken into two pieces near one end.
Description
A finely carved monument, this stone has steeply pitched sides with four rows of straight-sided tegulae above a plain base panel. The ends are slightly hipped, with traces of at least three rows of tegulae.
Date range: eleventh century.
Primary references: Waddell 1922; Lang 1974, 224.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
Dalserf, Lanarkshire, hogback gravestone
Measurements: L 1.89m, W 0.42m, H 0.27m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NS 79984 50706
Present location: lying outside the south wall of Dalserf Parish Church within a modern kerb.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1922 in its present position, where it has probably been re-used for a later burial.
Present condition: very weathered and broken into two pieces near one end.
Description
A finely carved monument, this stone has steeply pitched sides with four rows of straight-sided tegulae above a plain base panel. The ends are slightly hipped, with traces of at least three rows of tegulae.
Date range: eleventh century.
Primary references: Waddell 1922; Lang 1974, 224.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
Field Visit (17 March 1954)
(NS 7999 5070) Hog-backed stone with four rows of shingle ornament is still in position as described above; 1.8m long, 0.4m wide and 0.3m greatest height. The church is in use as a place of worship, and is of no especial archaeological interest.
Visited by OS (JFC) 17 March 1954.
Desk Based Assessment (1954)
NS75SE 13 79979 50712
Incorporates information from cancelled number NS75SE 43
(NS 79985071) Church (GT)
OS 6" map (1914)
Church dates from 17th century or 18th century - hog-backed stone outside it on SE side.
OS 6" map annotated by O G S Crawford, 13 May 1934.
Dalserf Parish Church: a plain, unpretentious building, erected in 1655. Renovated in 1894.
Anon 1904
Information from OS.
Excavation (5 September 2012 - 26 September 2012)
NS 7990 5070 (Dalserf) and NS 3610 9280 (Luss) An excavation was undertaken 5–26 September 2012 at Luss and Dalserf as part of York Archaeological Trust’s Discovery Programme. The excavation work was augmented by a test pit survey at Dalserf and an auger survey at Luss. The project, entitled ‘Hunting Hogbacks’ was designed to investigate the environs of both villages and provide archaeological context for the hogback stones.
Evidence of the post-medieval use of fields surrounding Dalserf was recovered, although there was a surprising lack of finds relating to the medieval or earlier periods. At Luss green-glazed pottery of possible medieval/post-medieval date was recovered from both the manse garden and the glebe, and a trench excavated in the back garden of the manse contained the remains of a shallow ditch, probably relating to post-medieval cultivation of the garden.
Archive: RCAHMS
Alastair Becket, Northlight Heritage
2012
