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Excavation of cross-base, Kilnave Church, Kilnave. View of the stump of the cross, as found, set into a slot in the basal slab.
AG 15265
Description Excavation of cross-base, Kilnave Church, Kilnave. View of the stump of the cross, as found, set into a slot in the basal slab.
Date 1981
Collection Records of Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number AG 15265
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 423678, SC 1909581
Scope and Content Detail of slab base containing stump of cross at Kilnave Chapel, Islay, Argyll and Bute A late medieval chapel stands at Kilnave on the west shore of Loch Gruinart on Islay's north coast. Although the chapel has been roofless for several centuries, the walls are still relatively intact. A 19th-century wall encloses the burial-ground. A number of Early Christian and medieval grave-slabs survive in the burial-ground. This is the lower of two grooved slabs which originally formed the base of a cross here. It was found 0.45m below ground during excavations in 1981. The slab bears a central socket surrounded by a groove forming a border 0.14-0.18m from the edge of the stone. Probably dating from the 8th century, the two slabs may have supported the cross with vertical slabs fitted into the groove between them. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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