Gungstie Description of stone

Event ID 1014357

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Gungstie 4, Noss, Shetland, cross-slab

Measurements: H 0.68m, W 0.27m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 5307 4094

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 1996.205).

Evidence for discovery: found in the graveyard in 1996.

Present condition: good.

Description

This slab tapers towards the base and is carved on one broad face with a sunken cross with barred terminals.

Date: seventh century.

References: Fisher 2002, 54-5; Scott & Ritchie 2009, 31, no 63.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016