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Cavers House, St Cuthbert's Church, Churchyard
Churchyard (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cavers House, St Cuthbert's Church, Churchyard
Classification Churchyard (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cavers Old Church, Churchyard
Canmore ID 96398
Site Number NT51NW 7.01
NGR NT 54050 15576
NGR Description Centred NT 5405 1658
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/96398
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Cavers
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT51NW 7.01 Centred 5405 1658
TOMBSTONES. The following tombstones were noted in churchyard :
(1) A recumbent slab of 13th-century date lying within 10 ft. of the E gable. Measuring 6 ft. 4 in. in length by 10 in. thick, it tapers from 2 ft. to 1 ft. 3 3/4 in. in width. The upper surface was borne a circular floriated cross-head now almost obliterated. The cross-shaft, however, is in better preservation, showing a knop beneath the cross-head and having six trefoiled branches extending chevronwise from each side.
(2) A small table-tomb inscribed OBITT / IOHAN/NA MA/GEL / ANNO / 1936. (3) A headstone commemorating MAGRET LEIDON SPOUSE TO GEORG (sic) HOG, who died in 1695, and IANET ELLIOT, another wife of the same, who died in 1705.
(4) A large headstone dated 1626, commemorating ADAM NIGROL and his wife MARGRET SMETH and recording that they died on the same day.
(5) A slab, almost wholly hidden by turf, on which can be read a few letters of 17th-century style. This churchyard also contains a number of headstones and slabs which are either illegible or grassed over; some of these almost certainly date from before 1707.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1933 and 1945
Photographic Record (1986)
Recording of gravestones in Cavers Old churchyard, Roxburghshire, by Mrs Betty Willsher 1986.
Watching Brief (13 July 2015)
Archaeological monitoring was undertaken as part of a planning condition for construction of a therapy pool building in the grounds of the converted church at Cavers. An area 67.5 square metres was stripped of topsoil. Four graves were identified lying on an east-west alignment. Three appeared to be broadly contemporary and one was later, cutting through one of the earlier graves. Part of a fragmented and poorly preserved skull was seen within one of the earlier graves. Upon discovery, the graves were not excavated any further. The area was covered with geotextile and soil and the raves preserved in situ.
Funder: Mrs Jane Cox
Headland Archaeology Ltd
Sbc Note (15 April 2016)
Visibility: Standing structure or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
