Brough of Birsay 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1015534
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015534
Brough of Birsay 2 (St Peter), Orkney, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.86m+, W 0.55m
Stone type: old red sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 2398 2850
Present location: in the site museum.
Evidence for discovery: found during excavations around 1936 in the graveyard, close to the apse of the church. It was set upright and later taken into the museum.
Present condition: weathered.
Description
This rectangular slab is incised on one broad face with an outline cross with slightly expanded arms and a faint central circle.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: RCAHMS 1946, fig 53; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 17.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
