Glasgow, Govan Old Parish Church, Govan 6
Gravestone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Glasgow, Govan Old Parish Church, Govan 6
Classification Gravestone (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 353108
Site Number NS56NE 17.07
NGR NS 5534 6591
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/353108
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Govan 6 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, recumbent gravestone
Measurements: L 1.78m, W 0.50m, D 0.15m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NS c 5537 6588
Present location: in the nave of Govan Old Parish Church.
Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard in the early nineteenth century, re-used as an eighteenth-century gravestone with an inscription around the top of the slab, reading BELLIY HOUSTONS.
Present condition: the middle section is extremely worn.
Description
This slightly tapering slab has a rounded top and an incised line creating a plain flatband order. On the upper part of the slab is a cross of ECMS shape 101A, filled with three-cord plait with a median line, and interlace with a median cord fills the background to the cross. At the base of the slab is a panel of triangular interlaced work.
Date: late ninth to eleventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 465, no 6; Cramp 1994, fig 33a.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
