Vol 13 - Dumfriesshire & Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian ...

42 HoDDOM Old Chuuchyard.
priuted down to tlie very bottom, and has the appearance as if
matter prepared for the vohnne had been crowded out for want of
space.
The third stone is within tlie same raih'ng- as encloses the
stones to the memory of Margaret Wilson and Margaret Lachlan.
It is an upright stone and waved on its upper edge, and is somewhat
larger than the gravestone at its side to Margaret Lachlan.
Upon its upper edge are the words MEMENTO MORI.
III.
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The inscription is
:
N
HERE LYSE WILLIAM .lOHNSTO
.fOHN MILROY, GEORGE WALKER
WHO WAS WITHOUT SENTE
NCE OF LAW HANGED BY MA
.TOR WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHER
ANCE TO SCOTLAND'S REFOR
MATION COVENANTS NATIO
NAL AND SOLEMN LEAGUE
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Hoddom Old Churchyard. By Mr Geoege Irving,
Newcastle.
When strolling about Hoddom a few weeks ago I was told
that there was an old font at the old churchyard. When I got
there I found it was not a font but the base and socket of an old
cross. I found it rolled up at the back of the south wall of the
churchyard. It was partly imbedded in the ground, but sufficient
of it above ground to get a correct view of it. It is made of
coarse, gritty sandstone, four feet high if standing erect, and the
socket on the top is one foot six inches square and six inches deep.
The edge or rim of the socket is about seven inches thick, except
at the four corners, which are rounded off to five inches. A part
of one side of the rim has been broken off. Half-way between
the top and bottom of the base there is a plinth of about two
inches roughly worked upon the stone.
There is a small fragment of Hoddom Cross in the Museum of
Antiquities in Edinburgh. Can this be the base ? It is doubtless
very old. The socket is calculated to hold a shaft, say ten feet
high. If it is part of Hoddoin Cross it is a most valuable histori-
cal relic, but if not it is still a valuable memento of the past. It
lies within a few vards of the site of the old pre-Reformation