Govan Old Church
Riverside parish church sheltering early medieval carved stones, Viking-age hogbacks and a sarcophagus.
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This guide to Govan Old Church in Glasgow follows the people who have worked its graveyard with spades, from a Victorian sexton cutting an ordinary grave to a fourteen-year-old volunteer on his very first dig. It touches on the early medieval carvers of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, the families who recycled their slabs for later burials, and the shipyard that grew up beside the churchyard wall. Stand near the carved stones inside, or by the south-east corner of the graveyard.
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