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Papil Description of stone
Event ID 1015000
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015000
Papil 5 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, shrine panel fragment
Measurements: 0.36m by 0.36m, D 0.05m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HU 3688 3148
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging some years prior to 1943 in St Laurence’s graveyard, inserted into a groove in no 8 ‘in signpost fashion’. It was seen lying in the graveyard in 1943 but was lost by the 1950s.
Present condition:
Description
This was a square fragment on which ‘two corners have been chipped away, leaving a tenon of about 1 foot (0.31m) by one and a half inch (0.04m)’.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Moar & Stewart 1944, 94; Thomas 1973, no 28.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
