Gungstie Description of stone

Event ID 1014355

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Gungstie 3, Noss, Shetland, rune-inscribed fragment

Measurements: H 0.25m, W 0.23m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 5307 4094

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 1995.88).

Evidence for discovery: found in the graveyard during excavations in 1994.

Present condition: none of the edges is intact and the carved surface is worn.

Description

This fragment is roughly incised with four elongated rune-like figures and a possible cross.

Date: uncertain.

References: Barnes & Page 2006, 7; Scott & Ritchie 2009, 35, no 78.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016