St Ninians Isle Description of stone

Event ID 1015204

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

St Ninian’s Isle 15, Shetland, cross-slab fragments

Measurements: H 0.43m, W 0.21m, D 0.03m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 1993.120)

Evidence for discovery: found during excavation in 1959, lying face down in the south-west part of the nave of the medieval church.

Present condition: fractured with broken edges.

Description

This is a very informal cross-slab, lightly incised with a cross with barred terminals and an extra bar across the upper arm.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Thomas 1973, no 10; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 68.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016