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Ulsta Description of stone
Event ID 1015378
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015378
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
