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Birnie 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1036693
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036693
Birnie 2 (St Brendan), Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: 0.53m by 0.31m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 2063 5873
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: found built into the churchyard wall in the early nineteenth century and subsequently taken into the church. Lost sometime before 1971.
Present condition: all edges were broken.
Description
This fragment was carved in relief and clearly of high quality, showing part of a roundel containing trumpet spirals, and part of an interlace design.
Date range: eighth century?
Primary references: Stuart 1856, pl 42; ECMS pt 3, 136-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
