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Christían sculpture in Norse Shetland
2) Although in Ireland ogam inscriptions are thought to have mostly ceased
about the time they began among the Picts, the seventh century, they occur on
the ninth century large silver brooch from Ballyspellan, on a grave-slab at
Clonmacnois c. 925 and on a cross-shaft at Killaloe — bilingual ogam and
Norse runes including a Norse name. (Macalister 1945; Lionard 163).
3) A slab-lined grave in White Ness churchyard found in 1938 contained
a possibly tenth century Viking axe.
4) The large square bases of the crosses on the Skinnet stone, decorated at
the corners in a manuscript fashion with loops, are perhaps more likely to derive
from altar crosses than from monuments. There is a similar but quite square
base on the simpler but probably related cross on a slab at Graemeshall in
Orkney. This may be of about the same date, as may the altar-front from Flotta
bearing an equal-armed cross likewise covered with interlace (ECM II figs.
18—19).
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