Framgord Description of stone
Event ID 1015409
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015409
Framgord 8 (St Mary), Sandwick, Unst, Shetland, recumbent gravestone
Measurements: L 1.22m, W 0.43m
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 there is damage to the edge of the slab to the left of the shaf of the cross.
Description
This was an almost oval slab, carved in relief with a cross with expanded terminals to the side-arms and a large disc terminal to the upper arm. The foot of the shaft is missing.
Date: tenth to eleventh centuries.
References: RCAHMS 1946, no 1539; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 128.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
