Cockburnspath Hogback

Cockburnspath Hogback is a historic site in Scotland, United Kingdom. Cockburnspath Hogback is situated near the ruins St Helen’s Kirk, as well as near Old Cambus, St Helen’s Church.

Type: Historic site
Description: fragment of a Viking age grave marker in the graveyard of Old St Helen’s near Cockburnspath
Also known as: “Cockburnspath Hogback fragment” and “Old Cambus hogback fragment”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Old Cambus, St Helen’s Church and Dunglass Viaduct.

Old Cambus, St Helen’s Church

Ruins

Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Old Cambus, St Helen’s Church is a ruins.

Dunglass Viaduct

Bridge

Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dunglass Viaduct is a bridge, which is situated 2½ miles northwest of Cockburnspath Hogback.

Dunglass Bridge

Bridge

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dunglass Bridge is situated 2 miles northwest of Cockburnspath Hogback.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Siccar Point and Old Cambus.

Siccar Point

Locality

Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Siccar Point is a rocky promontory in the county of Berwickshire on the east coast of Scotland. It is famous in the history of geology for Hutton's Unconformity found in 1788, which James Hutton regarded as conclusive proof of his uniformitarian theory of geological development.

Old Cambus

Hamlet

Old Cambus is a village in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. St. Helens church, which is now a ruin served the area.

Cove

Hamlet

Photo: Dysdera, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cove is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, 18 mi northwest of the Scotland/England border. It is about 36 miles southeast of Edinburgh and 8 mi from Dunbar. Cove is situated 1½ miles northwest of Cockburnspath Hogback.

Cockburnspath Hogback

Categories: hogback, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.92865° or 55° 55′ 43″ north

Longitude

-2.31541° or 2° 18′ 56″ west

Open location code

9C7VWMHM+FR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13685308673

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=hogback

Wikidata ID

Q138807326

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: St Helen’s Kirk and Cockburnspath Hogback 01.

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