Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

Pricing Change

New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered. 

 

Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642339

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/642339

HU42NW 10 4384 2873 and 4378 2866.

(HU 4376 2866 and HU 4382 2874) Sculptured Stones found AD 1872-3 (TI)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).

Two fragments of slabs bearing Runic inscriptions on the edges. The more northerly was found in 1873 and the other in 1872. They were found by Robert Cogil, Meadows by whom they were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS). (IB 104-5) (See also HU42NW 5 - Chapel Site)

Name Book 1878; NMAS 1892.

Nothing of significance was seen at either of these sites. No further information.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 8 May 1968.

People and Organisations

References