Hogback from Heysham

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The end of the world on the stone signed by Collingwood
Christian motifs on the stone signed by Collingwood
Hogback from Heysham

The Hogback of Heysham was initially in the cemetery of St Peter's. In 1961, the Hogback was relocated to St Peter's Church in Heysham , a town near Lancaster in Lancashire in the north of England , for protection from the weather and from visitors' hands .

Appearance

The hogback looks like a stone house with a tile or shingle roof and bears on the gable ends, whose snouts merge into the roof line.

The stone marked the grave of a high-ranking Viking who died in the 10th century and probably became a Christian before that. His tombstone is decorated with symbols from Nordic mythology and Christian motifs. Among the traditional hogbacks, it is one of the most beautiful and best preserved.

Nearby

10 m from the church found the rock tombs of Heysham (Heysham rock-cut tombs) dating from the 10th and 11th centuries.

See also

literature

  • Thor Ewing: 'Understanding the Heysham Hogback: a Tenth-Century Sculpted Stone Monument and Its Context'
  • JT Lang: Hogback monuments in Scotland . Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 105, 1972, pp. 206–235 ( full text , PDF 3.6 MB)
  • Richard Fawcett, David McRoberts, Fiona Stewart: Inchcolm Abbey and Island . HMSO 1989. ISBN 1-900168-51-0

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Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '50.7 "  N , 2 ° 54' 6.8"  W.