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Toab
Footprint (Early Medieval) - (Medieval)
Site Name Toab
Classification Footprint (Early Medieval) - (Medieval)
Canmore ID 2981
Site Number HY50NW 22
NGR HY 5 0
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2981
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Toab, Tankerness, Orkney, footprint stone
Measurements: L 0.56m, W 0.43m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY c 531 044
Present location: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh.
Evidence for discovery: found in 1880 and donated to NMAS. The precise findspot is uncertain.
Present condition:
Description
The stone is said to have been carved with a single sunken footprint, 0.23m long.
Date: early medieval or later.
References: Proc Soc Antiq Scot 15 (1880-1), 190.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
HY50NW 22 unlocated.
A slab of undressed sandstone, 22" by 17" by about 3" in thickness, containing a hollow resembling the imprint of a human foot, found at Toab, near Kirkwall was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1881 by Messrs J Williamson and B H Hossack.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1881 (Donations).
