Coppister Description of stone

Event ID 1015369

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Coppister, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone

Measurements: H 0.54m, W 0.36m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: HU 4819 7875

Present location: at the Old Haa, Burravoe, Yell.

Evidence for discovery: found during ploughing to the north of Nettlehaa in the 1980s, close to the site of the old burial ground.

Present condition: there is damage to one of the corners of the upper arm.

Description

This is a well-proportioned cruciform stone.

Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.

References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 84.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016