Teen Boy Discovers Long-Lost Medieval Gravestones in Scottish Churchyard
A trio of lost Medieval gravestones have been rediscovered in an Scottish churchyard.
The stones, carved with elaborate, interlacing patterns, were found by a 14-year-old boy during an archaeological survey of the Old Parish Church in Govan, a town established in the Middle Ages that is now part of the city of Glasgow.
“I was just prodding the ground to see if there was anything there, and suddenly it made a noise and I realized I had hit something,” the discoverer, Mark McGettigan, said in a statement.
McGettigan had hit a trace of the Govan of 1,000 years ago. Today’s Govan Old Parish Church stands on the site of an older site of worship, the Church of St. Constantine. Archaeologists have found Christian artifacts at the site that date back to at least the year 500, but Govan is most famous for its carved stones that date to between the years 800 and 1000. Read more.