Hogback from Luss

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Luss Hogback

The Hogback von Luss ( Scottish Gaelic Lus ) is a sculpted Anglo-Scandinavian tombstone of the Vikings and is located in the cemetery of St Kessog Church in Luss ( Scotland ). The stone is probably wrongly associated with the Loch Lomond raid ( English Lomond raid of 1263 - the last battle of the Vikings). It rather shows the range of the British-Nordic hybrid culture in the Kingdom of Strathclyde ( Gaelic Srath Chluaidh , originally British: Ystrad Clud - German  "Valley of the Clyde" ) of the 11th century.

description

The Hogback von Luss was excavated in 1926 and was covered by moss until recently. Its outline is based on that of a Viking Age building (compare, for example, Fyrkat and Trelleborg ), i.e. the roof is bent over the length like a pig's back and the side walls are bulging. The different patterns on the hogbacks are Scandinavian. The gray sandstone hogback is 1.78 m long, 0.43 m high in the middle and about 0.4 m wide, and tapers towards both ends. The raised ridge was about 60mm wide but almost went out. There are four rows of rounded roof panels on the roof. The vertical sides were cut in the Romanesque style. The north side bears an arcade of false relief, of intersecting double bulging round arches, which arise from simple columns with block capitals, without bases. The south side has a quadruple arcade with simple arched heads in the middle. On the right are three round arches, a cross with arched arms in false relief and a triskele with concave sides.

The arcades and arches are clearly changes in the following century, when both sides were redesigned. The regulated ornament by Luss can be found in the 12th and 13th centuries on several of the monuments in the churchyard. There are also two cross slabs in the cemetery of St Kessog Church .

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literature

  • James T. Lang: Hogback monuments in Scotland. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Volume 105, 1972, ISSN  0081-1564 , pp. 206-235 ( full text , PDF 3.6 MB).
  • R. Brydall: Notices of incised and sculptured stones at (1) Luss; (2) Inch Cailleach, Loch Lomond; and (3) at Glendaruel in Argyleshire. In: Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society. New Series, Volume 5, Number 1, 1908, pp. 23-26.

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Coordinates: 56 ° 6 ′ 1.4 "  N , 4 ° 38 ′ 12.1"  W.