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St Ninians Isle Description of stone

Event ID 1015228

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015228

St Ninian’s Isle 19, Shetland, portable cross-slab

Measurements: H 197mm, W 74mm, D 12mm

Stone type: micaceous schist

Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick

Evidence for discovery: found during excavations in 1999-2000 of the long cist cemetery south of the chapel.

Present condition: worn.

Description

This small slab is incised lightly and not very expertly with a long-shafted Latin cross, on which two curving lines run from part way down the shaft towards the ends of the side-arms..

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 72; Fisher 2011, SF 433, 122, 123.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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