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Measured drawings of the cross-slabs from the Brough of Birsay and Holm.

DC 60677

Description Measured drawings of the cross-slabs from the Brough of Birsay and Holm.

Date 5/8/2013

Collection Papers of Ian G Scott, archaeological illustrator, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number DC 60677

Category Prints and Drawings

Copies SC 1349809, SC 1349810

Scope and Content Slab from the Brough of Birsay incised with two crosses end to end, each with expanded arms, ring-heads and encicrcled shafts, found in churchyard c1936. Ork 18. Recumbent cross-slab from St Nicholas' Church, Holm: low relief Greek cross on saft and rectangular base, filled with interlacepatterns. Found re-used in the church floor in 1893. Ork 25.

Scale 1:5

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