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Framgord Description of stone

Event ID 1015406

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015406

Framgord 6 (St Mary), Sandwick, Unst, Shetland, cruciform stone

Measurements: H 0.48m, W 0.20m

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: worn and battered.

Description

This stone has a straight shaft and foreshortened squared arms.

Date: ninth to eleventh centuries.

References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1539; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 119.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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