St Boniface Description of stone
Event ID 1017211
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017211
St Boniface Church 4, Papa Westray, tegulated coped gravestone
Measurements: L 1.55m, W 0.41m tapering to 0.22m, H 0.22m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 4882 5270
Present location: in re-use as a gravestone in the kirkyard at the north end of the church beside the Traill family burial enclosure.
Evidence for discovery: recognised as a coped monument in around 1920.
Present condition: very worn.
Description
This recumbent monument has a flat ridge with a deep groove running along it and on either side there are three rows of rectangular tegulae with their corners trimmed.
Date: twelfth century.
References: Kirkness 1921, 132-3; Lang 1974, 218, 230.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017