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Norwick Description of stone

Event ID 1015400

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015400

Norwick 4 (St John), Unst, Shetland, cruciform stone

Measurements: H 0.89m, W 0.30m

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: there is damage to one vertical side of the stone, possibly the result of deliberate trimming.

Description

The surviving side-arm id shorter than the upper arm, and the angles between the arms continue as sunken triangles towards the centre of the cross.

Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.

References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1536; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 113.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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