Papil Description of stone

Event ID 1015186

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Papil 12 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, shrine post

Measurements: H 0.62m, W 0.18m, D 0.15m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 3688 3148

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 67126)

Evidence for discovery: found sometime after 1943 lying in the churchyard and later taken into the Shetland Museum by Tom Henderson, curator.

Present condition: good.

Description

This water-worn post has one plain face and three grooved faces, 0.27m to 0.29m long.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Thomas 1973, no 25; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 43.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016