St Ninians Isle Description of stone
Event ID 1015230
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015230
St Ninian’s Isle 21, Shetland, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.62m, W 0.36m, D 0.04m
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, face up covering the east end of a long cist.
Present condition: good.
Description
This unshaped slab is incised with a simple Latin cross.
Date: eighth century.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 69; Fisher 2011, SF 494, 122, 123.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
