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Tullibole Churchyard
Hogback Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Tullibole Churchyard
Classification Hogback Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Tulliebole Churchyard
Canmore ID 77379
Site Number NO00SE 24
NGR NO 05455 00812
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/77379
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fossoway (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Kinross-shire
Tullibole 2, Perthshire, tegulated coped monument
Measurements: L 1.04m, W 0.35m, D 0.20m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 0545 0080
Present location: in situ in churchyard.
Evidence for discovery: found lying in the old churchyard in 1991 by Niall Robertson.
Present condition: worn and sides recut.
Description
Related to earlier hogback monuments, this recumbent coped monument is carved with the remains of three rows of tegulae, but the ancient reuse of the monument has shaved off the lower part of the slab.
Date: eleventh or twelfth century.
References: DES 1991, 71; Ritchie 2004, 19.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Field Visit (1991)
NO00SE 24 05455 00812.
In Tulliebole churchyard (NO00SE 8) is a stone carved with parts of three rows of the tegulated pattern characteristic of hogback monuments. The stone lies S of the ruined church and measures 104cm by 35cm, with a varying depth of some 20cm. It has been cut down on all sides, and is clearly a fragment of a larger monument.
Sponsor: Pictish Arts Society.
N M Robertson 1991.
