View SSW of a C12th Viking hog-back tombstone in the churchyard of St MacKessog's church, Luss, by Loch Lomand, Scotland, UK.

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View SSW of a hog-back tombstone in the churchyard of St MacKessog's church, Luss, by Loch Lomand, Scotland, UK. The curved roof has representations of tiles or shingles in imitation of a gabled sarcophagus or tomb-shrine. Hog-backs are mainly Viking-age of the C10th/11th, but the round-arched arcades in Romanesque style suggest a C12th date. It may have been the grave cover or grave marker for a prominent man. Local tradition suggests that the stone is connected with an attack on Luss by King Hakon of Norway en route to the Battle of Largs in 1263.

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Size: 4961px × 3738px
Location: St MacKessog's Churchyard, Luss, Loch Lomand, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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