Gungstie Description of stone
Event ID 1014353
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1014353
Gungstie 1, Noss, Shetland, portable cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.24m, W 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 5307 4094
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 66116).
Evidence for discovery: found in 1959 lying at the edge of the graveyard.
Present condition: the top left and bottom right corners are broken away.
Description
This small portable slab is incised with an equal-armed cross, the side arms of which extend to the sides of the slab. The arms terminate in rectangular boxes, and there is a central square box, and the arms have a median line or inner cross.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, 32, 51, no 67.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
