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St Boniface Description of stone
Event ID 1017209
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017209
St Boniface Church 3, Papa Westray, possible cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 94mm, W 136mm
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY c 4875 5271
Present location: The Orkney Museum, Kirkwall (OM 1993.48).
Evidence for discovery: found on the shore near St Boniface Church in 1992.
Present condition: very worn but retains a short length of intact edge.
Description
This fragment has a roll moulding along its intact edge, and a double incised line which may be part of the side-arm of a cross. Above the double line (as drawn) is a small incised rectangle symbol, with a double median line and a central circle, from which two lines radiate at an angle. This fragment may be part of a symbol-bearing cross-slab.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Lowe 1998, 6-7; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 14 (where the given scale should read 1:5).
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
