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Papa Westray, St Boniface's Church

Composite Slab Shrine (Early Medieval)(Possible), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Site Name Papa Westray, St Boniface's Church

Classification Composite Slab Shrine (Early Medieval)(Possible), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)

Canmore ID 78421

Site Number HY45SE 68

NGR HY 48 52

NGR Description HY c. 48 52

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Papa Westray
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY45SE 68 c. 48 52

It has been suggested that a small, water-worn fragment found on the shore near St Boniface's Church in 1992 may be part of a corner post shrine. It bears a crudely incised rectangle symbol and part of a cross. Now in Tankerness House Museum.

(Undated) information from R G Lamb, Orkney Islands Archaeologist.

Class II symbol stone.

A Mack 1997.

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