Edrom Parish Church
Hogback Stone (11th Century)
Site Name Edrom Parish Church
Classification Hogback Stone (11th Century)
Canmore ID 96764
Site Number NT85NW 11.03
NGR NT 828 558
NGR Description NT c. 828 558
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/96764
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Edrom
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
Edrom, Berwickshire, hogback gravestone fragment
Measurements: L 0.93m, H 0.15m-0.25m, W 0.20m-0.34m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NT 828 558
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by Richardson in 1906 or 1907 in the hearse-house, but lost by the early 1970s when Lang visited the site.
Present condition:
Description:
Beneath a plain moulding are carved three rows of tegulae on one side and four rows on the other.
Date: early eleventh century.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Field Visit (7 November 1908)
149. Hog-backed stone, Edrom.
Lying in the hearse-house to the north of the entrance to the churchyard is the half of a hog-backed monument of white sandstone broken and split longitudinally. The fragment measures 3 feet 1 inch, and the stone when complete must have been about 6 feet. On each side appears well-defined scale ornament - three rows on one side and four rows of smaller scales on the other. The dimensions have been: height, 10 inches at the centre of the back and 6 inches at the end; width at centre 13 ½ inches and at end 8 inches. On plan the stone is slightly curved to the side bearing the three rows of scales, and the underside still shows the chisel marks.
See Antiquities, xli. p. 434 (illus.).
RCAHMS 1915, visited 7th November 1908.
OS Map: Ber., xvii. NW.
Note
NT85NW 11.03 c.828 558
A hog-backed tombstone of early 11th century date, now lost, was found in the burial ground about 1907.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
