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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 642801
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/642801
HU54SW 12 c. 521 423.
(Area centred HU 521 423) The Bressay Stone is an upright cross-slab of chlorite schist, 3ft 9ins high, 1ft 4ins wide at the top, tapering to 1ft wide at the bottom, and 1 3/4ins thick, sculptured in relief on the two broad faces and with ogham inscriptions on the two narrow sides. This much-travelled stone is said to have been found in a waste piece of ground at Cubinsgarth near the old ruined church of St Mary (Shetland 53SE 5 - HU54SW 5).
It was presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1864 by the Rev Z M Hamilton, D D.
E Charlton 1854; Archaeol J 1855; Stuart 1856; J R Allen 1903; RCAHMS 1946.
No further information.
Visited by OS (NKB) 16 May 1968.
This stone remains in the NMAS.
{Undated] information in NMRS.
