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Brough of Birsay Description of stone
Event ID 1017162
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017162
Brough of Birsay 10 (St Peter), Orkney, rune-inscribed fragment
Measurements: L 0.66m, W 0.30m, H 0.07m
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.
Description
The runes are carved along the narrow face of the stone and represent the lower part of the letters. This is probably a commemorative inscription, and it may be part of the same stone as nos 9 and 11.
Date: eleventh century.
References: Barnes & Page 2006, OR 9, 179-80.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
