Ring of Brodgar Decription of stone
Event ID 1017205
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
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Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, runic inscribed standing stone
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 2949 1339
Present location: in situ on a stone in the northern part of the circle.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1906 during restoration work on the stone circle on a portion of stone that was later attached to its stump.
Present condition: good.
Description
Carved on the inner face of the stone are five twig runes and a simple cross. Barnes and Page doubt the conventional reading of ‘Bjorn’.
Date: possibly Viking age.
References: Barnes & Page 2006, OR 4, 161-4.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017