medieval-atlas/the-church/330

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The church • -f + • Early Christianity The distinctive memorial stones ofGalloway and the Borders, many may be documented by cemeteries containing graves without gravewith inscriptions and clearly akin to those of Wales, show that from goods, oriented east-west, the bodies extended and enclosed in ro.ugh the fifth century an episcopally organised church spread through stone coffins. One such cemetery is associated with a memorial stone southern Scotland, though doubtless much disrupted by Anglian (Kirkl iston south of Abercorn), but in general the dates of burials are settlements from the sixth century, a disruption which may explain inferred not proved. The extension of Christianity from Lothian to why the memorial stones (and Ecles names) have an upland Fife which the distribution suggests agrees with one scrap of literary distribution, the early Anglian settlement being stronger on the coast evidence: a visit by Cuthbert from Northumbria to the Picts in Fife. and in the Tweed Valley. Nonetheless when the Angles became Other sculpture of early date, including, some of Anglian Christian after 633 they supported monasteries at Coldingham and character, is difficult to date, but is generally later than the British Melrose and a see at Abercorn, whose Celtic names suggest that they memorial stones. Such other sculpture is indicated on the map only took over British religious establishments there. The low Latin word for the southern area (including Dunbartonshire). The equivalent for a church, Eclesia, entered British as Ecles and also entered northern sculpture, and the main index of Pictish Christianity must Pictish. It has left a scatter of place-names which suggest British be the Class nsymbol stones with their elaborate relief crosses (see influence on early Christianity in southern Pictland. Pictish Monuments). There is little evidence to support Bede's claim The spread ofChristianity in the period ofAnglian expansion that St Columba converted the northern Picts, and early Columban / J~"M"';,~~;Ii:;:::;;~~f '"Y) ''""'' "" "~d Wheen (Eglishmaquhen), ~_ Agilsmochen), Inglismaldie . \ "'If . Egilyeul Langley Park (Eglisjohn) ~....Ecclesgreig ~(EgleSglrg) Egglespe~e~ ) ~ ~_ Eglismonichto Clashbenny (Ecclesdovenavin, • Ecglisbanyn) -'\ . ~Exmagirdle -,-Eglesnamin ~ • ~ • ·Eglismart;~~~smund ~~"'-. Gleneagles ~.......-'"\. / St Nimans . Ec;Jesmahne (Eccles) ~ • _......J _ ,I ..~Inchmartln (E lismarten) Falklrk (Egglesbrech) • e6. Abercorn -+ Ecclesmachin or -f + • Coludesburh (Coldingham) Glasgow~nChmaChan --·E I .. -ag escalrme Eaglesham • • + _Carluke (Englismalessok) Luel (Carlisle) Episcopal seat Monastery Early British sculpture Long-cist cemetery kms o 25 50 75 100 , ,, , , , , Sculpture of early date (probably 7-9th centuries) I o 10 20 30 40 50 60 Place-names in ec/es miles Early Christianity: Pictish and Anglian AAMD 330