BGCP_02 

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Photogrammetry here

The slab, aligned W–E, lies c 7 m S of the SW corner of the Old Kirk.  The slab is 1.79 m long (E–W) and 0.67 m wide, with straight sides and slightly bevelled edges. It has rounded corners at the head, and squared corners at the foot. There is a thin transverse crack  across the bottom third of the slab. 

Only part of the inscription is legible. It comprises, from the head: 

Date: 1721 

Two pairs of initials: MF and CM, separated by the top of a rectangular frame, round-cornered at top and squared at the base (perhaps mirroring the shape of the slab), with small opening in middle of base). The frame contains the outlines of two objects, a plough’s share and coulter. 

There then follows 7 lines of text, only the first of which is fully legible, the second being only partly so; of the rest only individual letters can be identified: 

HERE LIES IN HOPE OF A BLES / SED RESURR[?ECTION?] THE / R[?EMAINS OF?] …… F[?L?…] /  

Towards the foot of the slab are two further lines of text, also largely illegible apart from some  individual letters.  

ERECTED BY …