Islesburgh Description of stone
Event ID 1015413
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Islesburgh, Shetland, carved boulder
Measurements: H 1.08m, W 1.34m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 3365 6918
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 1992.716)
Evidence for discovery: found by L G Scott in the 1950s on the site of a possible broch.
Present condition: worn.
Description
The very informal and lightly pecked carving on this boulder resembles a bird in flight, perhaps either taking off or coming in to land as its leg is extended.
Date: early medieval or later.
References: Scott 1957; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 131.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
