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Mail Cemetery
Stone (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mail Cemetery
Classification Stone (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Mail Graveyard, Cunningsburgh
Canmore ID 82967
Site Number HU42NW 5.06
NGR HU 4325 2790
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/82967
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Dunrossness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU42NW 5.06 4325 2790
'Rod' of bluish-slate-grey steatite, D-shaped in section. Outer end is rounded off; inner end has apparently been broken off. On flat surface, two deeply incised grooves run off from broken end, coming slightly together, and then ending in an indefinite series of scores.
Perhaps an arm broken from a cross, this was found by the donor at Mail churchyard, Cunningsburgh; however, soil there came from Dunrossness, so may be from either [ecclesiastical] parish. Now in Shetland Museum: Register no. ARC 1993.485.
T Watt 1993.
