Glasgow, Govan Old Parish Church, Govan 33
Gravestone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Glasgow, Govan Old Parish Church, Govan 33
Classification Gravestone (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 353220
Site Number NS56NE 17.34
NGR NS 5534 6591
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/353220
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Govan 33 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, recumbent gravestone
Measurements: H 1.74m, W 0.55m, D 0.22m
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 nineteenth century, damaged in the twentieth century and taken into the church in 1992.
Present condition: extremely weathered and broken into two, with a fragment missing.
Description
This slab tapers from head to foot, with a raised border and traces of very heavy interlaced work.
Date: tenth or eleventh century.
References: ECMS pt 3, 470, no 33; Cramp 1994, fig 34d; Davidson Kelly 1994, 6-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
