Lundawick Description of stone

Event ID 1015387

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Lundawick 1 (St Olaf), Unst, Shetland, cruciform stone

Measurements: H 0.76m, W 0.14m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: HP 5669 0409

Present location: in the churchyard at Lund.

Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1930.

Present condition: good.

Description

This irregularly shaped cruciform stone has short arms and a rounded upper arm.

Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.

References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1541; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 102.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016