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A hogback in Dalserf Churchyard in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; the stone was found on the site in 1897. The patterned carvings are thought to represent wooden roof shingles. Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian style sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland. Singular hogbacks were found in Ireland ...
The Heysham hogback is, like other hogbacks, a grave-marker, monument or perhaps cenotaph, dating from the 10th century and probably from the period 920–950. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The man it commemorates is thought to have been a high-status individual connected with the Hiberno-Norse communities of Cumbria or Yorkshire , and its position on the coast ...
Hogback (sculpture), Anglo-Scandinavian stone tomb markers found in the British Isles Hogback (geology) , one of a number of topographic features (landforms) created by the erosion of tilted strata Hogback Hills, a recreation area straddling Genesee County and Lapeer County, Michigan
Only a fraction of the 100 copies of the Constitution were signed by then-Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson in 1787. The one found in North Carolina is one of them.
Hogbacks are Viking Age sculptured stones that were designed to be used as grave covers. [ 9 ] They were generally carved into curved shapes, and sometimes depicted scenes from Norse Mythology . One of the Hogbacks found at Sockburn may depict Týr and the mythological wolf Fenrir .
While most hogbacks snake along a surface in a relatively sinuous line, a few, such as those in Sundance, Wyoming, encircle a dome. The Dakota Sandstone Hogback encircles the Black Hills, an elliptical dome spanning from northwestern South Dakota to northeastern Wyoming. The Black Hills are approximately 125 miles (201 km) long and 65 miles ...
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...
Another copy of the U.S. Constitution is headed to the auction block. Brunk Auctions of Asheville, N.C., will put the recently discovered document up for bids on Sept. 28, starting at $1 million ...