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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

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