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Coldingham Priory. Grave Slabs. | ||||
supposed to have covered the grave of a child, appears also to have had an incised sword.
[Fig. 408] is 5 feet 2 inches by 16½ inches at the head, tapering to 14 inches at the base, and has bevelled edges, with a flat bead at the sides only. It bears the incised outline of a sword, with a large carved knob for the pommel.
Fig. 409.—Cushion Capital.
There are several stones at Coldingham preserved from an earlier church than the existing one. [Fig. 409] represents one of these, being a Norman cushion capital from a respond. The fragment is 14¾ inches wide by 11 inches high.
DRYBURGH ABBEY, Berwickshire.
Situated on the north bank of the Tweed (and, consequently, in Berwickshire), this once important abbey belonged to the series of monastic establishments founded in the twelfth century in the valley of the Tweed. It occupies a beautiful position amongst fine woods on an elevated peninsula, surrounded on three sides by a loop of the river Tweed, about five miles below Melrose.