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St Ninians Isle Description of stone
Event ID 1015202
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015202
St Ninian’s Isle 13, Shetland, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.41m, W 0.37m, D 0.07m
Stone type: steatite
Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 67130)
Evidence for discovery: found during the excavation, possibly in 1956, lying face up in the south-west part of the nave of the medieval church.
Present condition: broken.
Description
This fragment is plain apart from a pecked line creating a flatband moulded frame. It may be the base of a recumbent slab like no 12.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: Thomas 1973, no 12; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 64.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016.
