Papil Description of stone
Event ID 1014999
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1014999
Papil 4 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, shrine post
Measurements: H 0.63m, W 0.18m, D 0.12m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 3688 3148
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 6635A)
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging in 1943 in St Laurence’s graveyard.
Present condition: good.
Description
This tapering water-worn boulder has a groove in one broad and one narrow face, 0.32, and 0.36m long. On the other broad face A there is an incised cross with expanded terminals, a dot above the upper arm and an S-shaped spiral on either side of the upper arm.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Moar & Thomas 1944, no 3; Thomas 1973, no 27; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 38.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
