St Ninians Isle Description of stone

Event ID 1015201

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

St Ninian’s Isle 12, Shetland, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.43m +, W 0.45m, D 0.08m

Stone type: steatite

Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 67129)

Evidence for discovery: found during excavation in 1956, lying face up in the west end of the nave of the medieval church.

Present condition: broken

Description

This is the upper part of a cross-slab with a sunken cross and a flatband border creating by a pecked line.

Date: ninth or tenth century.

References: Thomas 1973, no 14; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 62.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016