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Eswick Description of stone
Event ID 1015583
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015583
Eswick, Nesting, Shetland, portable carved stone disc
Measurements: Diam 45mm, D 21mm
Stone type: steatite
Place of discovery: HU 4882 5380
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 2003.290)
Evidence for discovery: found in a redeposited context in 2003 in the soil around a newly built house.
Present condition: some edge damage but most of the carving is in good condition.
Description
This is a relatively small and thick disc. One flat face is firmly incised with a triscele with a central pit and a pit in each of the three terminals. The other side is incised with a double disc and Z-rod, on which one terminal has a clear oval, one disc has a central pit, and the other disc is divided into four unequal wedges, two opposing wedges being infilled with dots. There are traces of an earlier and more lightly incised design beneath the Pictish symbol.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 21.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
