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Papil Description of stone

Event ID 1015001

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015001

Papil 6 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, shrine panel fragment

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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’.

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References: Moar & Stewart 1944, 94; Thomas 1973, 27.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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