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