Field Visit
Date October 1981
Event ID 921621
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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(NR 394 867) Part of the tapered arm of an Early Christian free-standing cross of unknown provenance lies on a terrace in the private garden immediately SW of Colonsay House. The fragment, which is much worn, is of epidotic schist, probably of local origin, and measures 0.37m by 0.33m. It bears in low relief part of a cable-moulding which has encircled the centre of the cross-head, and the arm contains interlaced knot (Allen and Anderson 1903, 220, fig. 435a) with pointed terminals. This interlaced pattern is found on carvings of Early Christian date at Farnell, Angus, and Abercorn, West Lothian (RCAHMS 1929, fig. 212), and a cable moulding in the sarpe position occurs in conjunction with tapered arm of similar dimensions on the cross-slab at Soroby, Tiree (RCAHMS 1980, 168).
RCAHMS 1984, visited October 1981.
