Gungstie 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1037094
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1037094
Gungstie 2, Noss, Shetland, shrine post
Measurements: H 1.32m, W at upper dressed portion 0.15m, D 0.16m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HU 5307 4094
Present location: Shetland Museum, Lerwick (ARC 1994.726).
Evidence for discovery: found at the north end of the graveyard in 1994.
Present condition: good.
Description
A long beach boulder was selected to make this corner post, for which purpose the upper part was dressed to an almost square section, and longitudinal grooves were carved in three faces to take the side-panels of a composite slab-shrine. The presence of three grooves indicates that this was a double shrine.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References: Scott & Ritchie 2009, 24-5, no 46.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2016
