Framgord Description of stone
Event ID 1015403
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015403
Framgord 3 (St Mary), Sandwick, Unst, Shetland, cruciform stone
Measurements: H 0.54m, W 0.32m
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: good.
Description
This cruciform stone is a good intact example of the form with expanded upper arm, short side-arms with squared terminals and pointed foot to the shaft.
Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.
References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1539; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 116.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016