Framgord Description of stone
Event ID 1015402
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015402
Framgord 2 (St Mary), Sandwick, Unst, Shetland, cruciform stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.76m, W 0.30m +
Stone type: schist
Place of discovery: HP 6191 0290
Present location: in the churchyard at Framgord.
Evidence for discovery: recorded by RCAHMS in 1930.
Present condition: broken.
Description
One vertical side of this stone has sheared off, leaving one intact side-arm, short and with a squared terminal. Part of the upper arm is missing, but it had an expanded shape, as did the shaft.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1539; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 115.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
