Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan of cross-slab and detail.
SC 375039
Description Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan of cross-slab and detail.
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 375039
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/48
Scope and Content Cross-slab from Iona, Argyll and Bute Iona is one of the most important religious sites in Scotland. The earliest community was formed by St Columba who came over from Ireland around AD 563. This was replaced by the Benedictine Abbey and Augustinian Nunnery in about AD 1200. This rectangular fragment of stone may have been part of a cross-slab. There are three bands of interlace, the central one possibly being the shaft of a cross. The stone was recorded in the Nunnery in 1875, but has since been lost. A number of early Christian cross-incised stones and cross-slabs have been found on Iona. They were probably grave-markers, or possibly boundary-markers, with those decorated on both sides standing upright, and the rest being recumbent. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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