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Early Scottish Trades Gravestone. Irvine. The Scottish or Lowland Scottish gravestone is unique to the north of the British Isles. The study of Scottish Lowland Gravestones is essential to the overall study of British monumental inscriptions. The level of symbolism and detail on Scottish stones reached a peak during the 18th century.
The Govan Stones is an internationally-important museum collection of early-medieval carved stones displayed at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow, Scotland. [1]The carved stones come from the surrounding early medieval heart-shaped churchyard and include the Govan Sarcophagus, four upstanding crosses, five Anglo-Scandinavian style hogbacks, the 'Govan Warrior' carving, and a wide range of ...
The Kilmartin Stones are a collection of 79 ancient graveslabs (one exception being a side-slab of a tomb chest) at Kilmartin parish church in the village of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, about 30 km due south of Oban (about 46 km by road). The earliest stones date back to the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, with the most recent ones dated ...
5th to early 7th centuries CE 1508 1984–1989 excavation 1204 cremation urns [11] [12] [13] Collingbourne Ducis Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire: 5th to 7th centuries CE 120 1974 The largest number of burial remains in Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire. Includes a bed burial [14] Elsham North Lincolnshire 5th to early 7th centuries CE 552 1975–1976 excavation
Kilmartin Parish Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The present church building was designed by architect James Gordon Davis and opened in 1835, though there had been earlier churches on the site. [2] The churchyard has an important collection of early Christian and medieval carved stones, known as the Kilmartin Stones. Some ...
Some stones have both Ogham and Roman inscriptions. The stones are found in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, the Isle of Man, and parts of western England (mainly Cornwall, Devon, and Lundy). [1] Most seem to be grave-markers or memorials to a dead individual.
Abel's tombstone changes color and design at night, people say, and reports have surfaced alleging strange voices and lights in a cemetery where the oldest remains date from the 1700s. Stuart Monk ...
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 .