Unlocking the medieval mystery of the Govan Stones 4
by Stephen Driscoll, 1-03-18
The stone sarcophagus of King Constantine I. © Govan Heritage Trust
Professor of Historical Archaeology at University of Glasgow, Stephen Driscoll, on the Govan Stones, a remarkable collection of early medieval sculpture on display in Govan Old Parish Church
All of the stones come from the churchyard of Govan Old and, as far as we know, the majority, which are the gravestones, were actually still in use until the modern period.
They were recycled from generation to generation and some of them actually have inscriptions, initials and dates, which shows they were still being used in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries as gravestones for the local gentry.
https://museumcrush.org/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-the-govan-stones/
