Ulsta Description of stone

Event ID 1015378

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Ulsta, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone

Measurements: H 0.38m, W 0.25m, D 0.05m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: HU 4640 8033

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 1996.248).

Evidence for discovery: found during digging for cultivation on the site of the old burial ground in 1970. It was later presented to the museum.

Present condition: the base of the shaft is broken.

Description

This is a small and relatively thin example of a cruciform stone, with a wide and high upper arm.

Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.

References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 93.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016