Norwick Description of stone

Event ID 1015399

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Norwick 3 (St John), Unst, Shetland, cruciform stone

Measurements: H 0.82m, W 0.34m

Stone type: schist

Place of discovery: HP 6517 1410

Present location: in the churchyard at Norwick.

Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1930.

Present condition: good

Description

This cruciform stone has squared terminals to the side-arms, whereas the upper arm and the shaft are flared.

Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.

References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1536; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 112.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016