Papil Description of stone
Event ID 1015003
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015003
Papil 8 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, shrine post
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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, with a fragment of side-panel in each of its grooves ‘in signpost fashion’ (nos 5-7). At its foot was a skull.
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Description
This was a plain post with three grooved sides.
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References: Moar & Stewart 1944, 94; Thomas 1973, no 29.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
