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St Mary Description of stone
Event ID 1017217
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017217
St Mary’s Church, Skaill, Eday, Orkney, cross-slab fragments
Measurements: H 1.27m, W 0.41m
Stone type: whinstone
Place of discovery: HY 5680 3287
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found buried in six fragments in the churchyard in 1934, but the pieces could not be found in 1970.
Present condition:
Description
This was a rectangular slab which tapered slightly towards the top. On one broad face was incised an outline expansional cross with an equal-armed head with D-shaped terminals and a square centre, set on a long shaft lacking its base.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Stat Acct 15, 418; RCAHMS MS 36/119, 35; RCAHMS 1946, no 209; Fisher 2002, 47-8, fig 3.4; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 24.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
