Papil Description of stone
Event ID 1015002
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015002
Papil 7 (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’.
Present condition:
Description
This was a small fragment of panel, apparently with one tenoned edge.
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References: Moar & Stewart 1944, 94; Thomas 1973, 27.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
