Kirk of Gloup Description of stone
Event ID 1015231
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015231
Kirk of Gloup, Yell, Shetland, cross-slab
Measurements: H0.71m, W 0.24m tapering towards the foot.
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HP 5056 0485
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: found on the chapel site of Kirks of Gloup sometime before 1854, when J T Irvine saw it at the nearby laird’s house of Gloup Haa. By 1863 it had vanished.
Present condition:
Description
This was an undressed triangular slab, on the upper part of which a sunken cross had been carved, equal-armed with expanded terminals.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 65; Ritchie 2011, 26, 29.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
