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Hawick, 15 Howegate

Carved Stone (Medieval), Cross (Medieval)

Site Name Hawick, 15 Howegate

Classification Carved Stone (Medieval), Cross (Medieval)

Canmore ID 55339

Site Number NT51SW 13

NGR NT 50144 14371

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Hawick
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Roxburgh
  • Former County Roxburghshire

Archaeology Notes

NT51SW 13 5013 1437.

(Area NT 5014 1437) On removing plaster from a wall of 15 Howegate, adjoining the Auld Kirkyard road, Mr Ritson found a cross under which was a stone ornamented at each end by a fleur de lys, next a space below, with a base of a double rounded stone - this was not an aumbry or piscina.

On Wood's plan of Hawick, 1824, Needle Street is shown running in to the back yard of 15 Howegate, and may represent a former right of way to St. Mary's Church. The site of these stones is shown on the map by a small building suggesting that there may have been a shrine or chantry on the road from The Loan through Fore Row and Needle Street to the church.

J W Kennedy 1931

No. 15 Howegate is at NT 5013 1437. Mr Ritson has since died, and the precise find-spot is not known. The cross is in Hawick Museum.

Visited by OS (RDL) 8 January 1963

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Sbc Note (21 March 2016)

Visibility: This was the site of an archaeological monument, which may no longer be visible.

Information from Scottish Borders Council

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