Papil description of stone
Event ID 1015005
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015005
Papil 11 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, shrine post
Measurements:H 0.34m, W 0.15m, D 0.15m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 3688 3148
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 67127)
Evidence for discovery: found sometime after 1943 lying in the churchyard and later taken into the Shetland Museum by Tom Henderson, curator.
Present condition: battered and the top is broken.
Description
This slightly tapering post has chamfered edges and has two plain faces and two adjacent grooved faces.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Thomas 1973, no 24; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 42.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016