Stenness Description of stone
Event ID 1015589
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015589
Stenness, Eshaness, Shetland, carved stone fragment
Measurements: H 110mm, W 70mm
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 2114 7735
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 2016.233)
Evidence for discovery: found lying face down on the cliff-top west of Stenness in 2012 and given to the museum. It may have come originally from the Eshaness graveyard.
Present condition: broken along all sides, and part of the carved surface has flaked off.
Description
There are clear traces of incised carving on this fragment, including parallel lines and parts of three panels of interlace.
Date: early medieval.
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Compiled by A Ritchie 2016