South Keigar
Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name South Keigar
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 2925
Site Number HY50NE 12
NGR HY 552 063
NGR Description HY c. 552 063
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2925
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
South Keigar, Deerness, possible cross-slab
Measurements:
Stone type:
Place of discovery: HY c 552 063
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found lying on the ground near a souterrain in 1930.
Present condition:
Description
The slab is said to have borne ‘a hammered outline like a rude cross’.
Date: early medieval or later.
References: Rendall 1934; Scott & Ritchie 2014, no 27.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
HY50NE 12 c. 552 063.
In 1930 two slabs set 5ft apart were found in the same field as the earth house at South Keigar( HY50NE 9). One slab bore a hammered outline like a rude cross: the whole may have been a burial.
R Rendall 1934.
The approximate area of the site was indicated by Mr G Clouston, South Keigar, Deerness, at HY 552 063.
Visited by OS (RD) 1 September 1964.
