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Brough of Birsay Description of stone
Event ID 1017161
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017161
Brough of Birsay 9 (St Peter), Orkney, rune-inscribed fragments
Measurements: L 0.74m, W 0.30m, H 0.08m
Stone type: old red sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 2398 2850
Present location: in the site museum.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1934 during excavation of the graveyard, probably having been reused as building material in the twelfth-century church.
Present condition: broken lengthwise and broken into two fragments transversely.
Description
The runes are carved along the narrow face of the stone and represent the lower part of the letters, along with two mid-line crosses. This is probably a commemorative inscription, and it may be part of the same stone as nos 10 and 11.
Date: eleventh century.
References: Barnes & Page 2006, OR 8, 176-9.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
