St Ninians Isle Description of stone

Event ID 1015196

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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St Ninian’s Isle 8, Shetland, shrine post fragment

Measurements: H 0.38m, W 0.23m, D 0.11m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 67124)

Evidence for discovery: found during excavation in 1957 in the rectangular structure dubbed the ‘Founder’s Tomb’.

Present condition: broken and battered.

Description

This fragment represents the upper portion of a plain and substantial post, with grooves in two faces.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Thomas 1973, no 9; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 47.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016