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Mail Description of stone
Event ID 1014909
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1014909
Mail 3 (St Columba/St Paul), Cunningsburgh, Shetland, ogham-inscribed fragment
Measurements: H 0.29m, W 0.45m, D 0.05m
Stone type: micaceous sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 4330 2790
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (IB.182)
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging in Mail churchyard in 1903.
Present condition: broken top and bottom, but parts of two vertical edges are intact as well as parts of the inscription.
Description
This fragment appears to have come from a larger and probably upright monument, incised on one broad face with parts of three vertical lines of short ogham letters on stems.
Date: possibly ninth century.
References: Forsyth 1996, (Cunningsburgh 3) 219-26; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 53.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
