Year: 1905
Type: article
Abstract: Jedburgh, the county town of Roxburghshire, is of great antiquity, and is often mentioned in early Scottish history.In a footnote in the new edition of Chalmers' Caledonia, vol.i. p. 426, we have this valuable information, which he gives as a quotation:-(Smith's, Bede, i, iv, cap.xxvi.app.No. ii.; Simeon of Durham, col.69-139.)Ecgred, the Bishop of Lindisfarne, who died in A.D. 845, built the two villages of Geddewarde and Geinforde in Eoxburghshire, with the churches thereof, which he gave to the bishopric with other towns (Anglia Sacra, vol.i. p.' 698).Jedburgh in after times became occasionally a royal residence.There are many objects of historical and antiquarian interest in the town and district.The earliest are probably the two cup-and ring-marked stones discovered in Jedburgh.No. 1 (fig.1), which is of rather unusual type, has been already described and illustrated both in the Transactions of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club in 1864, p. 161, by Mr George Tate, F.G.S., and also in the Archaic Sculpturing^, by Sir James Simpson.The stone, which is about 18 inches broad, is now in the possession of the Eev.Adam Scott Matheson, Dumbarton.No. 2 (fig.2) is a sculptured stone, with incised ring-and cup-symbols, discovered by me in Jedburgh Abbey in 1903.It is of yellow sandstone, 1 foot 8 inches long, 9^ inches broad, 4 inches thick.No. 3 (fig.3).This stone, which was described by Dr Collingwood Bruce in the Proceedings of the Society in May 1885, forms the lintel over the entrance to the north-west turret of Jedburgh Abbey.Several erroneous readings of the Eoman inscription upon it had been given, notably in Jeffrey's History of Roxburghshire, vol.i. p.
Author: Walter Laidlaw
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4313121807