Papil Description of stone

Event ID 1015145

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Papil 16 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, shrine panel fragments

Measurements: H 0.44m, W0.35m, D 0.30m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 3688 3148

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 7433)

Evidence for discovery: found lying in the graveyard in 1971 and taken to the museum.

Present condition: broken into two conjoining fragments.

Description

This fragment is part of the upper portion of a panel, probably from a shrine. The upper edge on face A is incised with a line 3cm below the top.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Thomas 1973, no 36; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 40 (mistakenly attributed to St Ninian’s Isle).

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016