Earl's Bu 3 Description of stone

Event ID 1015596

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Earl’s Bu 3, Orphir, Orkney, gravemarker

Measurements: H 0.52, W 0.25m

Stone type:

Place of discovery: HY 3349 0442

Present location: lost

Evidence for discovery: sketched by George Petrie in the mid nineteenth century.

Present condition:

Description

This was an upright slab of anthropomorphic shape, with sloping ‘shoulders’ and trimmed rectangular ‘head’.

Date: tenth or eleventh century.

References: RCAHMS Archive Petrie folio SAS 487, 7, 38; Scott & Ritchie 2014, 192.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016