King Shaw's Grave
The stone box King Shaw's Grave (also called Bank Head Hill, King Schaw's Grave or King Schaw's Cist), discovered in 1828, is located on a slight elevation in the reforested, flat moorland of Airswood Moss, south of Eskdalemuir and north of Lockerbie in the east of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland .
The stone box lies in the middle of a low , almost completely removed cairn , which had a diameter of about 16.5 m and was framed by curb stones. The north-west-south-east oriented stone box consists of three rectangular plates, measures 1.25 × 0.6 m and is 0.75 m high (the south-west side is open). In the cairn there were rows of stones in the shape of a St. Andrew's cross that rose from the corners of the central box, which contained a stool grave. Fragmentary bones were found scattered between the cross arms. At the end of a cross arm about 4.2 m from the central box, a similar box was found at right angles to the row of stones. Another is said to have been found at the end of the cross arm opposite. All cross arms were probably connected to boxes, so that the complex site once housed five boxes. The rectangular capstone on top of the box replaced the destroyed boulder.
See also
Web links
- Description Engl.
- Entry on King Shaw's Grave in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
- Video
Coordinates: 55 ° 13 '38.9 " N , 3 ° 9' 57.5" W.