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Birnie 4 Description of stone
Event ID 1036636
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036636
Birnie 4 (St Brendan), Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: 0.19m by 0.14m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 2063 5873
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: found in the early nineteenth century and taken into the church. Lost sometime before 1971.
Present condition: all edges were broken.
Description
This fragment was carved in relief on one side with part of two panels of interlace work.
Date range: early medieval
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 136-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
