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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

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