St Ninians Isle Description of stone

Event ID 1015229

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

St Ninian’s Isle 20, Shetland, portable cross-slab

Measurements: H 207mm, W 63mm, D 18mm

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 slender slab is incised lightly with a plaited double cross.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 70; Fisher 2011, SF 465, 121, 123.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016