Hogback Stones in the UK and Ireland

This project describes [] hogback (Q1570646) stones in the UK.

A hogback is a gravemarker used between the 10th and 12th centuries in North England and to a lesser extent with typological differences in Scotland, Ireland (one known example) and Wales (one known example). The name derives from the similarity of the first described examples to the back of a pig, but some are not curved at the top. They resemble longhouses and might mean to depict houses for the dead.

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Hogbacks in Ireland and the United Kingdom