Old Scatness 6 Description of stone
Event ID 1014813
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1014813
Old Scatness 6, Shetland, possible cross-slab fragments
Measurements: A, H 0.15m+, W 0.17m+, D 0.06m; B, H 0.19m+, W 0.12m+, D 0.06m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 3898 1065
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (OSB 2016.1086)
Evidence for discovery: found buried but unstratified outside the excavated area.
Present condition: some wear is present
Description
These two fragments do not join together but are so similar in carving technique that they are likely to belong to the same monument, perhaps a small cross-slab. A U-shaped groove has been carved, on fragment A to form the base of the shaft of a possible outline cross, and on B a possible barred arm terminal.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Dockrill et al 2010, SF1086, 312, 315.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
