Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow is home to the Govan Stones museum, which contains one of the finest collections of early medieval and Viking-age sculpture in Europe. A collection of over 30 sculptures produced by the Viking-age Kingdom of Strathclyde, a lost kingdom of Old Welsh-speaking Britons who dominated the Clyde valley from the 5th - 11th centuries AD.
This is a viking-age ‘hogsback gravestone, a type that origniated in Anglo-Scandinavian Yorkshire. It is one of five hogsbacks in the collection and, as far as I could judge, this is the largest and most striking of these.
Not a great model but, in my defence, the space is very constricted for taking decent photos for 3D and the spotlighting imposes harsh contrasts and shadows.
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