Eastshore Description of stone
Event ID 1015587
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015587
Brough Head, Eastshore, Dunrossness, portable carved stone disc
Measurements: Diam 55mm, D 10mm
Stone type: fine-grained sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 40231125
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (SM 2010)
Evidence for discovery: stray find from the beach in the central area of the eroding broch.
Present condition: some edge damage.
Description:
One broad face of this disc is carved with a sunken pit, off-centre, and a grid of incised lines forming regular cells. It could be a re-used fragment of gaming board. On the other side are irregular incised lines.
Date: late iron age/early medieval.
References: DES 12 (2011), 172.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
