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St Ninians Isle Description of stone
Event ID 1015203
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015203
St Ninian’s Isle 14, Shetland, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.36m +, W 0.23m, D 0.01m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 6640)
Evidence for discovery: found during excavation in 1958 in the nave of the medieval church, lying face down over the silver hoard, presumably re-used.
Present condition: broken.
Description
Only the lower edges of this slab are intact, bearing the shaft and part of the head of an incised outline cross. The incision is neat and exact, and the cross has a squared terminal to the surviving side-arm, and large rounded armpits.
Date: eighth century.
References: Thomas 1973, no 15; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 66.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
