Hogback (sculpture)

Time position

Hogbacks occur from 920 AD, ie during the reign of the Danish king Gorm in Northumberland, but not outside the British Isles.

Form

Some stones have at both ends of a large bear sculpture as statements or with the dead ships, snakes, other animals, with ring nodes but also decorated anthropomorphic. The main decorative elements are scale-like shingles. A recently discovered on the Wirral Peninsula Hogback, is the smallest example of this type of stone monument. The elaborate decoration is identical types in North Yorkshire.

Find sites

Hogbacks never found themselves almost at the original place. A Hogback in situ is located at the Abbey of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth. The largest collection (11 ) is now in the churches of Brampton in Yorkshire and Govan in Glasgow. Of the five found on Orkney, there are only four, and these are likely to be of a much later date created copies of stones that were encountered in the south. A Hogback can be found in the graveyard of St Boniface 's Church on Papa Westray. The fragment of Hogback of Deerness is in the Museum of Kirkwall. Other Hogbacks located in Bedale and Repton (Derbyshire ), Heysham ( Lancashire ), Penrith, Burnsall, Appleby, Hexham Abbey, Sockburn of the teas, Luss, Govan and Meigle in Scotland.

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