Papil Description of stone

Event ID 1017088

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Papil 10 (St Laurence), West Burra, Shetland, rune-inscribed fragment

Measurements: H 0.19m, W 0.17m, D 0.03m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 3688 3148

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 65860)

Evidence for discovery: found in 1951 during digging a trench for a water pipe at a depth of about 0.50m, south-east of St Laurence’s graveyard.

Present condition: damaged.

Description

This fragment is incised along its narrow face with runes which are likely to be part of a memorial inscription.

Date: early medieval.

References: Thomas 1973, no 31; Barnes & Page 2006, SH 4, 132-4; Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 75.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017