Reafirth Description of stone

Event ID 1015383

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Reafirth 1, Yell, Shetland, cruciform stone

Measurements: H 0.42m, W 0.18m

Stone type: micaceous sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 5145 9095

Present location: in the burial ground at Reafirth.

Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1931.

Present condition: good.

Description

This is a tapering slab on which the side-arms have been indicated by little more than a rounded notch, leaving the upper arm very wide.

Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.

References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1713; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 98.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016