Papil Description of stone

Event ID 1017095

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Papil 18, Shetland, shrine post

Measurements: H 0.51m, W 0.23m, D 0.18m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: HU 3685 2090

Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 1996.218)

Evidence for discovery: found during grave-digging in St Laurence’s graveyard in 1996.

Present condition: good.

Description

This post has two plain vertical faces and two grooved vertical faces, the grooves being 0.23m to 0.25m long.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, no 35 (mistakenly attributed to St Ninian’s Isle).

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017