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Papil Description of stone
Event ID 1015004
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015004
Papil 9 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.44m, W 0.33m, D 0.06m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HU 3688 3148
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 6636)
Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging in 1943 in St Laurence’s graveyard.
Present condition: broken top and bottom.
Description
This fragment belongs to an upright grave-marker with a rounded top and an expansional cross incised on face A. The side-arms fill the width of the slab, but the upper arm lies below the top of the slab.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: Moar & Stewart 1944, no 2; Thomas 1973, no 32; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 59.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
